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Transferring Digital8 to DVD - newb

Apr 19, 2006 11:32PM PDT

Hello gang! First of all thanks for all the other posts that have given me a taste of what I'm in for.

I have a Sony Digital8 camcorder (my first two died and I wish I could have bought something else but that's another story) and would like to get the most reasonable quality transfer to DVD's via a program to edit and annotate the product.

I have the firewire, the PC (XP) and ZERO knowledge.

I was up until 2am messing around w/ MovieMaker2 but ran into some walls.

I don't mind dropping some coin to get the needed software but free is better. Isn't it always.
I don't mind spending time doing this but I also don't mind paying for features that will spead the process.

Your feedback is already appreciated.

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You have firewire. Good.
Apr 20, 2006 12:35AM PDT

DVDSANTA could make that DVD in short time. There's a demo at it's web site.

Bob

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Don't like following directions....
Apr 20, 2006 6:14AM PDT

I bought that wire at least 3 years ago. I kept getting frustrated over my XP not recognizing my camcorder and hit multiple sites (via google searches) to try and resolve the problem. At some point it dawned upon me that I wasn?t using the @$@##$ firewire at all. Silly

Anyways, now that I?ve solved that problem, via randomly iterating, I can now be frustrated by MovieMaker and my lack of understanding weighed against my expectations.

Thanks for the note.

More input is welcome. As you can tell I'm a total newb at this and will take all the advice you're willing to shower, or hurl, down upon me.

Regards,

jb

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Just a quick short capture, edit, burn routine.
Apr 20, 2006 6:36AM PDT

I don't know "anything" about Microsoft's Movie Maker. While I've tried it, everytime it locks up the video in Microsoft's format and that's not good for me. So while I may know something, I won't write about it and movie maker.

The quick path to a dvd.

1. Connect with Firewire and run WINDV (google.com, free)
2. Capture your clips.
3. Many just need to snip the video. Virtual Dub is free and fast.
4. Next, off to DVD. DVDSanta will do.

Bob