Hey, I bought a new JVC digital camcorder for S2KDays and I want to know how to take those movies from the camera and make MPEG's out of them? So you clowns who can't make it to Asheville can see what happened?

I also got a mount for the camera to clamp on to the secret compartment. It's awesome...

So, I need your help...! How do I do this?!

 

I'm trying to find out as well

Please see my question: http://www.s2000online.com/forums/showthre...0588#post120588

Thank you.

 

you've got PM!

 

Mr. Burn, I couldn't find anything there (at http://www.pinnacle.com ... ) that did what I was looking to do. Maybe you could send a url to the prodcut that I need to interface the camera and PC

Is there a USB solution?

Thanks!

 

With a Digital Vid cam you are going to interface with your PC using IE 1440 (?) or Firewire. Runs off a SCSI interface and is fast enough to handle full motion video. Newer Macs have this built in and PC's can get a card for it. USB II will work but isn't for sale yet. USB is too slow now. Check with the manufactuer of your camera to see if they have a rec. Hope this helps.

Mark

 

I'd use something like this Dazzle Multimedia DM4100 Digital Video Creator or similar product by Dazzle. (at dazzle.com but not working at the moment)

 

I'm not sure which camera you have but I assume it's a MiniDV type with IEEE port right? If that is the case you will first need to edit it. We can pull together all the video from everyones cameras and make a pretty slick movie.

The edit ratio is about 10 to 1 (10 minutes of video for every minute of final product). The first job is to use a non-linear edit package to make a cut list of all the video you want to put together and get those onto the hard disk. You'll need a very fast one or you will drop frames and you want to pull it all in at full scale (720x480). This is done by connecting the camera to a firewire port on your PC. The video is tres big! You'll need LOTS of space. 5MB for every second @ 29FPS and 44Khz. A one hour final product would consume 18GB for the final file alone. You will need Win2000 and use NTFS on the video drive to support files > 2GB in size. Get a brand new ATA/100 drive (75GB can be had for about $229) and if your system is a bit older get a ATA/100 controller too ($39).

Once all the clips are loaded from the tapes to the disk, you put them all together in order and decide on transitions and such. Basically you lay it down. Once you get it all done, then you can convert to MPEG or better yet some hinted streaming format.

I have the software and hardware but not the time. I can loan it to someone that does perhaps. I'd love to do it but S2KO keeps me pretty busy in my off hours. I also have an instructional video for the software which shows how to use it. It's complicated software and will take some dedication to learn. The results will be spectacular however and I encourage anyone that has an interest and some time to make this contribution.

The software is Digital Origin's EditDV 2.0 for Windows and the IEEE card that comes with.

I would happily pay $29.95 for such a video and would make a very nice fundraiser for S2KCA. I would think you could sell 500 tapes, that's ~$15K which is a nice chunk of change.

That all assumes you bought a MiniDV camera of course. If you didn't, shame on you! Return to where you bought it and exchange it!

 

Should've bought the Sony, PC-10 I believe, makes mpegs straightout of the digicam!

 

Loki, are you talking about Sony DCR-PC100?

 

The interface card you want is an IEEE 1394 or FireWire card. This is a standard developed by Apple and accepted by major digital video equipment.

Sorry Lips2000 but it's got nothing to do with SCSI. The EditDV kit is an FireWire PCI card and software and will be great if your camera is supported.

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