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Hi I have just bought a new hard-drive digital video camera (actual an SD card camera rather than built-in disk). My main reason for wanting such a camera is so I can simply drag and drop the files on to my PC and save/view/upload them from there. I can easily transfer the files on to PC either by USB or direct from the SD card. They are in mp4 format, which open in Quicktime by default.

Please can someone advise me. I have a DMR-E95 DVD recorder with hard disk. The hard disk is nearly full of archived home movies. The disk is also starting to have problems with sound. I need to back up the contents to a multi-media server on my home network. How can I do this please? Backing up to hundreds of DVD-RAM disks is not an option - too expensive and time consuming. Thank you. Chris B.

Hi folks. I recently transferred a bunch of Super 8 sound home movies to video, using wall projection and firewire from a Sony video camera. The final results (after many trials and experiments) seem excellent to my eye. I'm keen to copy the films onto DVDs and spread them around various family households for viewing and safe keeping. However, whenever I try to save the uncompressed AVI...

Is there any software that can perform simple edits on an mpeg file, such as top- and tailing it and removing commercial breaks, without having to re-encode the whole file. I'm sure it must be possible: 95% of the file is unchanged so you do a byte-for-byte copy, with only a few frames around the edit point needing to be re-encoded. Pinnacle Studio 10 is great for editing, but then takes...

I have an old Sony Digital-8 camcorder, and I'm planning to get a mini-DV model to replace it. I want to be able to copy my old tapes onto mini-DV. Having done a bit of research I know I should be able to do this camera-to-camera if the new camcorder has DV-in and I buy a 4 pin to 4 pin firewire cable, but there is one thing I'm not sure about: how to make the mini-DV camcorder start...

I have an Alba RDVD1000 DVD recorder, which, when I record from the TV onto a DVD+R/W will not then allow me to copy from this DVD+R/W onto a different machine. It keeps showing on screen a security warning. I can copy to tape, but even trying to copy from tape onto another DVd brings the same warning message up Why and what can I do ?

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Hi, Recently I was given an ALBA DVD Recorder. It had a DVD stuck inside the drawer. I tested it and sure enough the drawer would not open. Upon removing the cover, I soon saw that the DVD mechanism had exactly the same electrical connections as that in a PC. I removed the mechanism, connected it to my PC and used the My_Computer options to open the drive. I then removed the DVD and...

If you have made a home movie that you've put on DVD and want to shrink wrap it so it looks extra special like it has just been bought in the shops, does anyone know of any places that sell shrink wrap that you can diy yourself at home? E.g. about 10 years ago I used to make my own wine, and you could get plastic tops that go over the top of the bottle and the cork, then what you would do is...

I am using the Sandisk Vmate to record TV onto an SD card. It records in MP4 (iso). Can anyone recommend a freeware program to edit the finished MP4. I want to cut out the adverts etc. Mick

My neighbour Bob last year released his fourth album entitled 'Norfolk Heroes' which is available in Jarrolds and many other stores on the North Norfolk coast. The first track is called 'Down The A149' which describes the various places on that road between Kings Lyn and Cromer. We want to make a video to accompany this song showing clips of the various places mentioned in the song and are...

Where can you buy these in the High Street for a reasonable price (i.e. less than £15.99)? Thanks. -- Martin '03 R1150RS (#2) '04 Falco

Has anyone used a Macrovision Remover please and if so, what make / model did you use and was it as good as you thought. James

Retail boxed version of the Pyro Professional. It alls you to convert any analogue signal to DV and back again. Comes with all cables. http://www.adstech.com/products/API-558-EFS/intro/API-558_intro.asp?pid=API-558-EFS It is the previous version, but it still has the same features etc. The only thing is that it doesn't come with the Adobe Premiere (That is all registered and has been upgraded...

Still can't get my laptop to display in colour on my Philips TV. I'm using a 3 metre cable to connect from the S-Video on laptop to a scart socket on the TV (as shown in the P.Bell Instruction Guide that came with the laptop.) Can anyone please advise? MH

I'm not getting any listings for BBC one on my freeview box (from tomorrow onwards). Usually shows 14 days in advance, all of the other channels appear ok and there's no signal problems etc. Last few days I've been getting a few 'program/film to be announced', but only on BBC 1, I put this down to the sport over the weekend and that it may alter times etc. Anyone else having trouble? My...

I've just boughtthe above to replace my old Hi8 and noticed a very pronounced buzzing form the motor/tape mechanism. Is this a known problem with the camera, or have I got a bad one? TIA BLonks

Hi I'm sure the question "which camera?" comes up quite a lot :) So, with an apology in advance, I am asking it again. I have very little technical knowledge about video cameras. I'm pretty good at filming because I have directed in the past, over ten years ago, for some TV companies. However then of course there was a full crew and so almost no technical knowledge was needed from me. I...

Hi, I'm looking for a free tool that can split an .avi automatically into chunks of less than 2 GB ... in order to copy them to an external HDD in FAT. I've searched Google and found many tools, but none of them really work for me. They are either not free or they don't accept my standard Premiere .avi files or they don't work automatically or they don't work at all! Lenny