TRYING TO FIND OUT BEFORE PURCHASING
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FASTEDDIE
TRYING TO FIND OUT BEFORE PURCHASING
I HAVE NOT PURCHASE A CAMERA YET, BUT I AM LOOKING AT A VERY SMALL CAMERA THE SANYO XACTI VPC-C40 4MP MPEG4. I'M LOOKING AT THIS SOFTWARE TO HELP ME EDIT AND BURN DVD's. I LOOKED AT THE WEB BOARD AND IT HAS DIFFERENT WAYS TO DO THIS, BUT I DON'T KNOW WHICH WOULD BE THE PROPER PROCEDURE THAT MATCHS THE KIND OF CAMERA I AM THINKING BUYING (MPEG4 FORMAT). THE CAMERA HAS USB & VIDEO S OUT, I HAVE BOTH OF THOSE PORTS IN, IS THIS GOOD ENOUGH TO GET A SMOOTH DVD BURNER THAT WILL PLAY ON MY DVD? ANY INFO ANYONE CAN SHARE, IF THIS KIND OF CAMERA WILL WORK WITH THIS SOFTWARE AND IF SO WHAT WOULD BE THE PROPER SET UP AND PROCEEDURE TO CHOOSE FROM WHEN WORKING WITH THE ULEAD VIDEO SOFTWARE. I JUST HATE NOT KNOWING WHAT I AM GETTING INTO, AND FINDING OUT LATER I HAD APPLES AND ORANGES MIXED UP. ALSO, IS ONE DVD BURNER BETTER AND MORE FORGIVING WHEN BURNING DVD's TO VIEW ON OTHER DVD PLAYERS. THANS ED
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MPEG4 is a fairly new format and for all intents and purposes can be considered the same as Xvid and DivX. they are very highly compressed formats but retain a high quality. There are a few standalone 'DVD' players appearing on the market that can play MPEG4 / DivX and Xvid formats but presently they are few and far between.
A 'normal' DVD is made up of IFO , BUP and VOB files
Those VOB files are in fact MPEG2 files. When you make your own DVD any video files you have will be converted to MPEG2 format.
MPEG4 is so highly compressed that we have difficulty editing this format.
The easiest format to work with is known as "DV" which can be type 1 or type 2. Type 1 simply means the video and audio are combined but type 2 they are seperate streams. This makes little difference to our editing of them.
The best method of connection between camcorder and computer is by way of an IEEE1394 cable also known as firewire
or i-Link. Most users of this forum have reported problems when attempting to capture by way of a USB2 cable.
There are also camcorders on the market that record to a disc rather like a mini DVD disc. My camcorder uses tape cassettes and so I cannot comment upon those types of camcorder but I am sure a few other users will add their comments to this thread.
Regarding a DVD burner. It has been found that despite the burning speed capabilities of a DVD burner and also the speed capabilities of the blank discs, that any attempt to burn at speeds higher than 4x produces an unreliable DVD. I am talking about DVD video here, so dont let that remark prevent you from purchasing the fastest available burner within your budget. Burners also produce DATA disks and so on.
MPEG4 is a fairly new format and for all intents and purposes can be considered the same as Xvid and DivX. they are very highly compressed formats but retain a high quality. There are a few standalone 'DVD' players appearing on the market that can play MPEG4 / DivX and Xvid formats but presently they are few and far between.
A 'normal' DVD is made up of IFO , BUP and VOB files
Those VOB files are in fact MPEG2 files. When you make your own DVD any video files you have will be converted to MPEG2 format.
MPEG4 is so highly compressed that we have difficulty editing this format.
The easiest format to work with is known as "DV" which can be type 1 or type 2. Type 1 simply means the video and audio are combined but type 2 they are seperate streams. This makes little difference to our editing of them.
The best method of connection between camcorder and computer is by way of an IEEE1394 cable also known as firewire
or i-Link. Most users of this forum have reported problems when attempting to capture by way of a USB2 cable.
There are also camcorders on the market that record to a disc rather like a mini DVD disc. My camcorder uses tape cassettes and so I cannot comment upon those types of camcorder but I am sure a few other users will add their comments to this thread.
Regarding a DVD burner. It has been found that despite the burning speed capabilities of a DVD burner and also the speed capabilities of the blank discs, that any attempt to burn at speeds higher than 4x produces an unreliable DVD. I am talking about DVD video here, so dont let that remark prevent you from purchasing the fastest available burner within your budget. Burners also produce DATA disks and so on.