VS9 Capture from Sony DCR-DVD201 Handycam

[THoff]

I don't use my cam in such a way that I would want to put a mini disc of shots into the DVD player. When you look at movies or pro videos you will see that none of them use shots much longer than 10 to 15 seconds at the most. Once I got into VS8 I started shooting nothing but 5, 10, 15 second shots and then I recreate the story of what I shot using the editing software. As cute as it may seem at the time, watching my kid fool around in the water at the beach on a video can become mind numbingly boring if it is just one continuous 20 minute shot!

Yes, but in most cases the large number of short segments is the result of editing. You'd still shoot 20 minutes of your kids playing at the beach, and select the 5 or 15 seconds of the funniest / most memorable video.

[lancecarr]

Thoff
Yes that is my point, I was delineating the difference between whether the poster would actually play the long segments on a stand alone DVD player or whether he would use that footage as stock for editing.