Capturing from HD camcorder (JVC) VSX5

[ljh0205]

I have used old tape type camcorder (sony) for 7 years and used firewire cable(1394) to capture the video into my desktop. capturing file format was AVI(DV type 1). It's pretty big size of files but I like this type of file format because there were no compression so that I can keep an uncompressed original DV files. When I captured(download) the video from camcorder, I usually turn power on the camcorder after connect into desktop, then VideoStudio automatically recognized my old SONY camcorder so it's always ready to capture the videos.
BTW, I purchaed new HD camcorder (JVC, model jvc gz-e10). I did connect same what I did tape camcorder, but neither my computer nor VSX5 can't recognized to capture. (It just only detect as movable device, i.e. SD card...)
Anyone knows how to capture this video crip from HD camcorder using VideoStudio program???? Inside of SD card, captured files have "mts" file extension.
Thansk,

[BrianCee]

take the SD card out of your camcorder- if your computer is fitted with and SD slot put the card in there - if you do not have an SD slot on your computer buy an SD card reader (very cheap) put the card in that and plug it into a USB port.

Drag and drop the files from the card to your HDD - import them into VideoStudio.

[ljh0205]

Thank you for the input.
BTW, is that only way to capure the video clip into HDD?? Old capute method (using capturing tab in VSX5 is no longer vaild for HD Camcorder??)
2. How can we splt the scene as what I used ???
3. mts file are an uncompressed files? Any other method to get the most "uncompressed" files from HD camcorder???

[Ken Berry]

Technically, you should be able to connect your camcorder to the computer via a USB cable. In a sense, you should forget about the word "capture". Once your camera (or the card) is connected to the computer, the Windows and VS should "see" the camera/card as a separate drive. You then just drag and drop the video on the camera/card to the computer, and then open them in VS. So really, instead of 'capturing', just think in terms of transferring the video files from one drive to another.

MTS files are highly compressed high definition mpeg-4 files using the h.264 codec, and are more commonly known as AVCHD -- a very demanding format to edit and play. You need a pretty powerful computer to do so. But what you see is what you get. You can't transfer the files from the camera in any other format than the original AVCHD. You could, if you want, then use another program, or even VS, to convert them to a less compressed format. But you would lose (significant?) quality if you did so. But there is no reason to convert. AVCHD is currently one of the highest quality consumer formats available (although a new one -- called 4K -- is also starting to appear and will require probably even more powerful computers to handle it.)

[BrianCee]

well on my HD camcorder every scene creates a new file - when you press record it starts a new file - then when you press pause it closes the file. so if you look at your SD card you will have a lot of smallish files - each one is a scene.

and no - you can't get better quality than simply dragging and dropping from card to computer - and you can't do it quicker than that either - it's virtually instantaneous.

[lata]

Hi

Most HD camcorders save the files to a hard drive or memory card, transferring the files to the pc is the same as transferring Images.
I assume the camera comes with USB?

Drag and Drop
Copy and Paste

Some cameras have software to help with downloading, if your camera did come with software you my be best using that. Even so its just copying the files to the pc. Your cameras hard Drive/memory card may show as a removable drive, view My Computer, then you should be able to view the files.

Once saved to the pc, right click the timeline for Insert Video, browse for your files.

Split by Scene works from the timeline for DV-Avi and Mpeg2 types, I doubt if Split by Scene works for HD types, besides they are separate files, but try right clicking the clip from the timelines to see if the option is available.

This will split the clip just like using the scissors, it will not create separate files as the capture option did.

Note:-
DV-Avi are 13 Gb per hour, they are compressed using Digital Video compression
Raw uncompressed AVI is 65Gb per hour

HD video is compressed using a variety of compression types, MT is Motion Transport Stream, this may be mpeg2, H264.
The point being they are compressed.

Right click a video in the timeline and select properties, take a note of the Compression used, data rate used, frame size and frame rate.

[Terfyn]

Thank you for the input.
BTW, is that only way to capure the video clip into HDD?? Old capute method (using capturing tab in VSX5 is no longer vaild for HD Camcorder??)
2. How can we splt the scene as what I used ???
I guess the Sony used DVtape and Firewire to transfer the video. (As does my Canon HV20 camera which is also HD) so the "scene split" in the Capture function is used to separate the continuous video into manageable sections usually set by date and time. With the cameras that use card storage, each "take" is a file in its own right so the scene split is no longer necessary. But, with my Panasonic HC-V700 (SD card), there are additional files carrying data about the video which are not needed by VSx5. I use the software that came with my V700 to separate these files from the video files (HDWriter) and then Capture these files into VSx5 and so into the library and so on. The HDWriter also collects the still photos and the same process is used to transfer the files from the camera to the editor or to your photo collection in your PC.
As the file system of the SD card have the scenes already split, the process of reforming them into a video is the same as the DV (following the scene splitting process in Capture). Further splitting for editing purposes in the Edit stage is the same as before using the "scissors" or "blade".

[ljh0205]

Thanks a lot!!!