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Rachele Weishaar
I have an old Sony DCR-TRV250 NTSC handycam that works, and has USB streaming. I own a handful of old Hi8 tapes with some short family videos on them that I would like to save to my PC so that I can sell or give away the old handycam.
My old Sony Handycam CCD-TR840E is a Video Hi8 camcorder. It can capture both 4:3 and 16:9.
Is there then a difference in the framesize between the two or are they different. And what framesizes should I then use for the project for each.
As far as MEP goes, you will easily be able to account for this, regardless of how you capture it. If MEP allows you to capture as 16-9 from the Elgato, well and good, but if it only allows a capture in 4-3, after the video is on the timeline, you can reset the video clip format to 16-9 by right-clicking on it and in the Object Properties, setting it to 16-9 on the Video tab. Either that, or set the Movie Settings to 16-9, then adjust the Size and Position to 16-9. That will stretch out your video to the correct shape.
My struggle is over! I built my (now) system 2 in 2011 when DV was king and MPEG 2 was just coming onto the scene and I needed a more powerful system to cope. Since then we've advanced to MP4 and to bigger and bigger resolutions. I was really suffering, not so much in editing (with proxies) but in encoding, which just took ages. A video, with Neat Video noise reduction applied, would encode at 12% of film speed. My new system 1 does the same job at 160% of film speed. Marvellous. I'm keeping my old system as a capture station for analogue video tapes and DV.
For capture from the camcorder, the resolution you record at is a mute point and the subject of many different opinions however bearing in mind that the equivalent resolution of the analogue signal is sub DVD (SD) spec, recording at 720 x 576 there should be no difference in visual quality to recording at 1920 x 1080.
I'm using a Sony CCD-TR425E PAL camcorder with a Honestech MyVid Box connect via USB to a WIndows 10 laptop. Premier Pro says "Capture Device Offline" when i try to use it to capture the video from the camera. The Box works as i can capture the video via that box but, the file sizes are too big to import into PP so was trying to get it to capture the video and cut the footage into managable file sizes.
Premiere Pro can only capture from a USB device if the manufacture has written drivers for Premeire Pro. Firewire devices do not require drivers although the new version of Mac OS X will not dedect Firewire devices. On a side note the cheap USB capture devices can be a pain in the butt. The video below might be worth watching.
You can import videos using Windows Live Photo Gallery. You can then edit them, save them and share them with Windows Live Movie Maker.
Note: Videos cannot be imported directly from an analogue camcorder (such as Video8 or Hi8) to your computer when using Windows Live Photo Gallery. To do this, you will need an analogue capture device on your computer. These convert analogue audio and video to a digital format that can be imported by a computer, and are widely available.
Note: If your PC runs Windows Vista or Windows 8, you won't need to do this.
Once your camcorder is connected, you will need to verify that the proper driver has been selected by Windows 7.
Windows 7 comes with two i.LINK/IEEE 1394 drivers; a new one and a legacy one. For video capture, you will need to use the legacy driver. Simply follow these step-by-step instructions to make sure the right one is installed.
I just installed Debut 5.25 and am trying to get it to capture video from a Sony HandyCam Digital8 camcorder, which I have connected to the computer by FireWire. When I click on the "capture" icon in the toolbar, I get an error window that says "No valid capture device could be found." When I go to Tools > Options, and click the "Capture Device" radio button, there are no options in the "Name" dropdown.
The camera is a Sony HandyCam Digital 8 tape camcorder, Model No. DCR-TRV520.
In this case, I recommend you to check different capture options, for example some video capture devices are detected as a Webcam and some Webcams are detected as capture devices, so you may need to go to Options > Video tab > and confirm if the device is detected under Webcam or under Capture Device. In case you still have issues, you can check that the drivers are correctly installed. Updating or reinstalling them could fix the issue.
I have a capture device to transfer tapes to digital, but I'm having a problem with the cables. The camcorder has a black and yellow cable, which the capture device also has. The problem is that the black cable for capture device isn't the same as the black for the camera, seen in the photos. Is there any cable I could buy to link these together?
These features proved most rewarding to me, because I have a hamster (Gibbie) as part of my household. Being a nocturne creature, Gibbie generally wakes up at night and runs around after I turn off all the lights. Like me, he likes discreet operations. Therefore, he is rarely active when the light is on. With the 0 lux recording capability, I was able to capture Gibbie in action.
The NightShot switch on the side of the camcorder, seems to move an infrared-blocking filter out of the lens/sensor path, and allows you to capture infrared light-wave in the scene. Combined with the NightShot Light (see previous section), this feature provides a very powerful night scope capability.
I have found that the NightShot Light can be turned "on" and "off" in the menu system. I was confused at first because I would enable and disable it through the menus, but see no difference in the scene. It turned out that this capability is tied to the mechanic NightShot switch. When the NightShot light is enabled in the menus, the infrared light turns on with the NightShot mechnical switch. Than I realized that when the NightShot Light is set to "off" in the menus, the light does not come on when NightShot is switched to "on". Therefore, allowing the camera to capture the existing infrared light-wave without polluting the scene with its own infrared light.
16:9 is the aspect ratio for a wide screen. The standard TV screen is 4:3, which most camcorders record to. The DCR-TRV350 allows recording of 16:9 aspect ratio by chopping off the top and bottom video capture. Although I am not a fan of losing data, it is a neat feature to try out different artistic composition.
When I was young, I had a friend with an interest in film and acting. He now has an acting degree. At the time, he had a "fancy" camcorder that could record video frame by frame. We started creating our own adventures using all the G.I. Joe figures that my brother and I collected. The Sony DCR-TRV350 also has this feature. Every time the "Start" button is pressed, the camcorder captures about 6 frames and returns to recording standby. I look forward to trying out this feature again.
[Update 2003-10-29] I went out last week and bought a Belkin FireWire Notebook Adapter. It is a CardBus adapter with three 6-pin FireWire ports. The camcorder worked just fine with this adapter and my Averatec notebook. I was able to capture video and control the camcorder through Windows Movie Maker on Windows XP. Set-up was a piece of cake; the software detected everything automatically. The higher throughput allowed the transfer of video in DV format at a resolution of 720x480. Be warned, each minute of video takes up 180 MB of storage space! This means that a 700 MB CD-R can store 3.8 minutes, a 2 GB DVD-R can store 11.1 minutes, and a 4 GB DVD+-R can store 22.2 minutes of DV data.
The USB jack is based on the mini-B standard. It is the same as the connector on my Sony Clie. In fact, I used the same cable. Connected the camcorder through the USB port and using the included InterMix software, I was able to capture video at a maximum of 320x240 resolution. There was no sound; I got nervous. I wanted to transfer sounds contained in my child-hood memory. After looking around a bit and at the Sony's product support site, I found out that the sound source has to be configured through the preference menu in InterMixer software to use the USB port. Whew . . . this camcorder is a keeper.
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