well I was asking duh questions about this a couple of months ago so I can tell you the sum total of my current knowledge. If you record throught he camera's driver, there's a significant chance you'll wind up with a huge avi file. Use Windows Movie Maker. It's free and will get you one of several commonly used files, mpeg4 and wmv among them I think. I was able to edit my video using Premiere but that was really too much app for my purposes and probably yours. Very resource-intensive, also.
Now, I learned that much here so other people will probably chime in. If not an archive search might help. It was not that long ago. On 9/4/07, Judah McAuley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a video camera on long term loan so I can take videos of my cute > little daughter. It records onto DV tapes, which is all fine and good. > Now I want to get the video off of there and turn it into video I can > show people, send to happy grandparents, etc. > > The camera has a Firewire port and cable and my laptop has a firewire > port (which I've never used). So the connectivity issue seems straight > forward. > > Now then...I plug the camera into the laptop and...do what? > > I obviously need some sort of software to capture the video and then > edit it and save it out to a file. > > I'm running XP Pro at the moment but am quite comfortable using Linux as > well, so suggestions on software and tips for either platform would be > delightful. > > Thanks, > Judah > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Get the answers you are looking for on the ColdFusion Labs Forum direct from active programmers and developers. http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/categories.cfm?forumid-72&catid=648 Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:241954 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
