I have a Sony DCR-HC62 MINI DV HandyCam. How to make a DVD or a Cd from the Digital Vedeo cassett?
2009
How to make a DVD from a Vedeo Cassett.
ALL miniDV camcorders use a DV port for transferring DV-format video. Your computer needs a firewire port. If it does not have one, they are easy and cheap to add if your computer has an expansion slot.
DV, i.LINK, firewire400 and IEEE1394a are all the same thing.
You will also need a 4-pin to 4-pin or 4-pin to 6-pin firewire cable. The DV port on the camcorder is always 4-pin. The computer’s firewire port can be 4-pin or 6-pin.
Once this is set up, with the camcorder in "Play" or "VCR" mode, Windows MovieMaker can "capture" the video from the camcorder. WinDV is also a good (free) application to use. Windows MovieMaker can provide basic editing. When editing is done, here are several DVD authoring tools… WinDVD comes to mind… These DVD authoring applications let you build scene selection menus and take care of rendering the video out to a DVD that can be played back in regular DVD players. This assumes you have a DVD burner in (or connected to) your computer.
CDs do not hold enough data (700 meg) – so if the video is REALLY short (3 minutes or less?), you might be OK – but DVDs will hold more information (4.7 gig for single layer or 8.5 gig for double layer – it depends what your computer’s DVD burner is capable of handling).
July 28th, 2009 at 6:50 am
ALL miniDV camcorders use a DV port for transferring DV-format video. Your computer needs a firewire port. If it does not have one, they are easy and cheap to add if your computer has an expansion slot.
DV, i.LINK, firewire400 and IEEE1394a are all the same thing.
You will also need a 4-pin to 4-pin or 4-pin to 6-pin firewire cable. The DV port on the camcorder is always 4-pin. The computer’s firewire port can be 4-pin or 6-pin.
Once this is set up, with the camcorder in "Play" or "VCR" mode, Windows MovieMaker can "capture" the video from the camcorder. WinDV is also a good (free) application to use. Windows MovieMaker can provide basic editing. When editing is done, here are several DVD authoring tools… WinDVD comes to mind… These DVD authoring applications let you build scene selection menus and take care of rendering the video out to a DVD that can be played back in regular DVD players. This assumes you have a DVD burner in (or connected to) your computer.
CDs do not hold enough data (700 meg) – so if the video is REALLY short (3 minutes or less?), you might be OK – but DVDs will hold more information (4.7 gig for single layer or 8.5 gig for double layer – it depends what your computer’s DVD burner is capable of handling).
References :
July 28th, 2009 at 7:25 am
Great answer from Little Dog! Once you’ve finished editing you could use DVD Flick to make the DVD – its menu options are very basic, but it’s free!
To keep the quality as high as possible, in WMM, save your video as DV-AVI (it’s under Save on My Computer, Best quality show more choices, Other settings) and then write it to DVD using DVD Flick.
References :
http://www.dvdflick.net/