What's the best way to get video from camcorder to DVD?

silva086 · Post by **silva086** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 10:38 pm

With a little editing. What should I capture it as? Is AVI better than the DVD mpeg option? I did AVI and burnt it but it looked like crap. Even the text was distorted and blurry on the tv. For some reasons MPEG isnt working though. What's the best quality?

Trevor Andrew · Post by **Trevor Andrew** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 11:39 pm

Capture using a digital camera via firewire to Dv-Avi

Read the first posting at the top of the page.
Have a read at the tutorials.

http://phpbb.ulead.com.tw/EN/viewtopic.php?t=27

Hope this helps

silva086 · Post by **silva086** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 11:56 pm

So I need to get a firewire cable? I can't use USB? How much is firewire and will it definitely plug into my camera?

There is no way I can get another codec or something?

Post by **Ken Berry** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 12:57 am

Are you trying to capture from an analogue video camera, or a digital one? If it is analogue, then the camera is unlikely to have any connections other than either RCA pins (yellow and red and possibly black or white if it is stereo sound). If it is a digital video camera, then there would normally be a 4 pin firewire plug (often called i-link). You need to buy a firewire cable to connect that to your computer, but your computer must also have a (6 pin) firewire connection either on the motherboard, video card or special firewire card.

You can use USB but it must be USB 2.0 -- as USB 1 is not fast enough to transfer video. If your camera has a USB connection, it is often just to transfer still images taken with the video camera.

silva086 · Post by **silva086** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 1:11 am

I have a USB 2.0 cable hooked up from my computer to my camcorder. It's a Panasonic GS-12

Post by **Ken Berry** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 6:30 am

From another of your (many) posts, you said your camera has an iDV port -- that obviously is the same as a 'mini' DV or iLink port. And as I have already suggested, you need to connect your camera to the computer using that port. But for that you must buy an appropriate cable (they never seem to come with either camera or computer). But most video electrical or computer stores have them and they are expensive. What you will probably need to do, to be safe, is take your camera along when you buy it. But hazarding a guess, I would say it is 99% certain that you will need a firewire cable with a 4 pin plug at one end (to fit into your camera's port) and a standard 6 pin firewire plug at the other end, to fit in your computer's standard firewire port.

Now that might be a problem: does your computer have a firewire port? If you still have a brochure on your computer it will say either directly that the motherboard or video card have Firewire, or it might say, more technically, that it has IEEE 1394 capability. Those are one and the same thing.

But if your computer does not have one, then you can also buy a firewire card to fit into a spare slot in your computer. They are not particularly expensive. And unless your camera has a high speed USB 2.0 output port, then as I (and others in response to others of your posts) have already said, then you will not be able to use your camera's USB port to transfer video as it is likely to be a slow USB 1 port meant only for still photos. And no, the firewire cable cannot plug into a USB port -- they are quite different.

I suspect that if you got a firewire cable and plug it into a firewire connection on your computer, you might have a much wider capture choice in Video Studio.

Trevor Andrew · Post by **Trevor Andrew** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 9:25 am

Hi

Have a look at the tutorial by Jerry Jones, it has images of a firewire connection on the first page, this will give you a good idea of the thing yoiu are looking for.

http://www.jonesgroup.net/media/vstutorials.htm

Ps

Quote from panasonic review

http://www.easycamcorders.com/content/Q ... V-GS12.htm

The following ports are available to the user of the Panasonic PV-GS12: A/V Out (doubles as an external mic port), USB, FireWire, SD Memory Card, Mini DV Tape.