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Can anyone recommend the cheapest camera with night vision. I know there a line in the sony nightshot but are there other brands with good quality night filming? Thanks Lee

I have a Panasonic GS13 bought in December 2004. Had little use. Tried to film in bright sunlight the other day and everything was totally washed out. Filming the shadows came just fine. Every other time I had filmed inside so I never had the problem before. Any suggestions or maybe it just this model? Anything I can do about it? All the settings seem to be okay. I am not using the low light...

I'm very new to all this and I can't find an FAQ for this group so I apologise if this question has been asked before. I've just bought a Sony HC22E MiniDV camcorder and I'll be using a Firewire cable to connect the DV output of the camcorder to the DV input of my stand-alone DVD recorder so that I can put my movies onto DVD. My DVD recorder (a Philips DVDR725H) will allow me to record in...

I am using Pinnacle Studio 9.4.3 and have had very good results with digital capture using DV format from a DV camcorder. So good were the results that I decided to update some of my old home movies taken with a Video8 analog camcorder. I therefore bought Dazzle Digital Video Creator 90. This is also a Pinnacle product consisting of an analog capture module connected to the computer via...

How much do these hotshoe camcorder lights drain on the battery i.e. what kind of reduction in use of a battery would I expect for one that normally lasts for approx 6-8 hrs? Thanks for any experience and opinions of these lights.

I've got a Philips TV with incorporated DVD player, of late it has started to become a wee bit eratic with playing DVDs. Sometimes it'll tell me to insert a readable disk whereas on occasions it will play the same media. I do check the cleanliness of the discs. Are the DVD/CD cleaners any good or is it likely my player is on the way out. Geoff Lane

As many probably know channel Four have started a venture were the public can upload four minute _documentaries_ so that others can see their work, as part of this they have a couple of PDF files that are designed to help those making documenters that should also help / be of interest other film making genre's - in one file there is a sample contributors release form (that looks similar to other...

A friend has a Sony hc22, they can capture video using the cradle, docking station. all fine, but how to make a dvd of this? They have used M'soft's Movie maker to cut and edit titles etc, and then saved the resultant file as a dv-avi(pal). This avi file is then converted to a type 2 avi file and loaded into Pinacle expression to make menus for the DVD etc. The problem is the quality of the...

Can anyone here recommend a good external mic for a Sony VX2000, preferably via the hotshoe connection? Don't think I want to add XLR adaptors or the like. Thanks for any suggestions.

Hi, I can see that you can buy satellite receivers with a lot of features ... All I am asking for is such a box but without all the satellite crap: A VHS with a hard drive instead of the tapes if you like. I looked a bit on google and e-bay but it seams that such a device does not exist :-( Ideally this device (of my dreams) would look like an external hard drive recording mpeg or avi, with a...

I've just started to get into video editing and have a basic question. How can I create animated titles that become .avi files for adding into video? I have Nero6 but I can only see how to insert Nero's prepared transistions, fades etc. (I can't even find these effects as files within the Nero folder. I have DrawPlus that creates animations but apparently only as gifs for web use. I also have...

Hello all, I want to make a short .avi or dvtape of a computer screen display. Ideally I would run the programme -it's fractals - and have Premiere Elements record it direct but I suspect that is pie in the sky. The best suggestion yet has been to run the prog in full-screen mode and save it to a VHS machine. I should be able to do that as I have a Studio Plus card but it will lose...

My Radeon 9800 Pro allows me to view AVI, DVD etc on my TV. Also I can view Premiere Pro playback on my TV when the DV camera s-video output is connected to the TV s-video input. However I want to playback without the camera camera using the same TV out (S-video) of my Radeon 9800. When I try this I do not get the overlay but see the desktop with Premiere running including the running...

It was my daughters birthday yesterday, I put the video camera on charge for three hours before she got up. The camera only lasted about a second each time I tried it. Its an info lithium or something like that. Last time this happened I put a small dc motor across the battery and left it to empty the battery,then charged it as normal. It worked until today, about 8 months since the...

Sorry in advance if I'm posting to the wrong group but this seemed the most relevant from the selection I had. I'm about to buy a camcorder. I was all set to purchase from the uk then I read a magazine article advising to purchase on-line from the US. Sure enough, after a small search on e-bay I found the exact same camera for £100 less than the best UK price but it's NTSC - though it does...

Hi, I've acquired a used monochrome CCTV security camera, but can't seem to find the pin-outs of it's mini-DIN connector on the web. Is there a standard? It appears to take its power from the monitor down the same cable (which looks just like a 6-pin S-video cable.) It's only a cheap one (~400 lines of resolution) if that helps. Cheers, -- Rob

I'm looking for a digital camcorder, have done some searching: Cannon mvx250i or Canon 850i or Sony dcr-hc22 are the likely contenders! As my head is aching with the possibilities of these I thought I'd see what people suggest! Main use as a hobby cam, family and all that, with editing on a pc and burninf finished work onto DVD for granny etc!!! ;-) Look 350 max ish

I have just started to try video editing. I have transfered a vhs tape which had out of sync sound to harddisk. What is the normal procedure to resync. Do I unlink the sound track and cut or add video frames or can I move the sound track by a few frames? I use Premiere Pro. Beemer

Hi there, This should be simple but it is driving me mad, I am currently filming crab behaviour in aquariums for a university project. I am shooting with an old MiniDV Sony DCR-TRV10, and use Vegas 5 for editing. I am shooting crab pairs for 15 minutes, what I want to do is insert a time counter on the video so when I add it to the DVD on the screen overlayed over the crabs is a hh:mm:ss...

I'm very much a newbie at this but I'm looking to buy my first digital camcorder. My brother is working in america at the moment and I was thinking of asking him to bring one back for me from there as they're much cheaper there (I know we may have to pay duty and whatever on entry but it's still cheaper), but I know they use the NTSC system and we use PAL. Something I read the other day...