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I want to record/replay Freeview TV but also keep/edit a small no of these recordings (+ some old VHS tapes ) before making up new DVD's for playing on the TV. At present I have no equipment to any of this but think it would be best to use my PC for the editing phase Ideally I would like to record using a HDD in a freeview box and then connect this to the PC directly for the feed but is this...

I've just bought my first camcorder (on eBay). It's a Panasonic NV-GS5B, which looks to have the sort of features I'm after (in the main, PAL, DV-in, mic-in, various manual overrides). It should arrive next week. What are folks' opnions on this unit? A mate has the GS3, and that seems pretty good to my newbie's eye - enough to influence my decision in going for the GS5. (I paid 180 quid +post,...

Hi, I have a Panasonic NV-DS55B camcorder that has developed a slight fault, when you load tapes every now-and-then it spins the reel fast, beeps a few times and then ejects the tape, although this is an intermittent fault it always happens at that critical moment! I decided to buy a new camcorder and went for the Canon MV750i, first I couldn't believe how cheap camcorders are these days,...

My sister-in-law (who has many video tapes) recently decided to purchase a Bush VCR/DVD recorder combo, her logic being that she could then copy all of her existing video collection onto a shiny new DVD's, thus solving her storage problems. However it wasn't to be, as every time she inserts a pre-recorded tape in an attempt to produce a DVD back up, a pop up message appears telling her that this...

For Sale:- Jimmy Jib "Beefy" 22' camera crane with remote head and lens controls on wheeled tripod. Takes cameras up to 25 kg. (Regularly used with DigiBeta/DSR570) Excellent condition, owned by small professional video company, well maintained, used on many TV programmes. (pics at www.cameracranes.co.uk )

Are there any good links to download sample video ? Would somone who has this camera be able to make a sample of DV available on emule or somthing like that ? Oh, I saw that clip on dvspot already, but it seems strange that I can't find any other sample clips :( Simon

Hi all, Can some one tell me the different mpeg levels and the qualities they produce. At the moment I am transferring my movies from my JVCDX77 and the quality doesn't look too good. The movie size is 320 by 240. When I convert the movies to VCD 1 using Nero 6 on a friends computer(I only have a CDRW at the moment cant afford a DVD writer yet) and play back on my DVD player I get a blocky...

I have a hardly used Sony TRV60 digital camcorder for sale. It is in mint condition & is supplied with an FM70 & a FM90 battery along with the external zoom microphone & a nice carry case. All items that were supplied in the box are also included. I am asking £375 for it if interested. Reason for the sale is that it just never gets used.

As we will be moving later this year, hopefully, we have started packing. The DVD layer was one of the first items to be packed away. Having a laptop and a desktop pc both with s-video connectors on, I purchased a s-video lead so that i could connect either to the tv and watch a dvd. The problem is, that I only get a black & white piceture on the tv. Is this right ? Not having a s-video connector...

I have two televisions and a computer in this room. One small television(the older one) and one bigger(has 3 years). I have a radeon 9600 video card in my computer and connected to my small television through an S vid connector. After some problems here and there, installing drivers for the video card and so i finally got it working. It was showing my desktop in the AV channel in the...

Does anyone else have problems downloading software from the Pinnacle web site or FTP server (www.pinnaclesys.de)? I can't get past the log in page when I try to download from the web site - it times out after about 5 minutes, and connecting to the FTP server gives me a blank window - I'm connected, but no files or folders are listed (anonymous login, passive mode). Also, is Pinnacle's support...

We need to purchase a low cost small MiniDV Camcorder, we don't need loads of bells & whisles, and certainly not digital zoom and memory stick rubbish, what would be ideal is a 3chip camera with quite good low light facilities. and small size. we don't need to firewire back to the camera as we have DV decks of our edit equipment so the camera would not even be connected to a computer, the...

For Sale:- Sony DSR300-PK with Canon YH18 x 6.7 KRS IF Lens (922 hrs) £1750 Sony DSR300-PK with Fujinon S14 x 7.5 BRM-38 lens (496 hrs) £2250 Both regularly serviced and well looked after cameras used mainly on weddings by professional video company 4 Sony BPL40 Li-Ion batteries and Swit twin Charger £250.00 or buy the whole kit of both cameras and the batteries/charger for

Bought a 10 pack cakebox of the above, and they are simply not recognised by my NEC DVD burner. It's not my burner as I have burnt to many other types, and since the eProformance problems, I've used Philips 8x DVD -R with total success. Am still awaiting a response to my query email from eProformance... If anyone can burn them successfully, and would like a free 10 pack of the eProformance,...

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I'm having a problem playing DVDs on my Panasonic DMR-E55 DVD Recorder. I edit in Premiere and generally output as *.avi. Therefater I import the *avi into Ulead DVD Factory 2 to author the DVD. This is the process I have followed for some time now and DVDs have always worked on my older Toshiba SD-220E. Newly created DVDs won't play on the Panasonic and I simply get an 'unsupport' error...

Up to now I have been persuaded that the best Digital camera was an SLR Digital. A friend tells me that provided you don't want to change lenses you don't need an SLR, if so, which cameras would you buy right now. Can someone comment on that please, thank you. To assist anyone kind enough to help me here, can I add the following comments I made to a previous post in another Newsgroup which...

Hi, Hope someone here can help, I have a new Sony DCR-HC14E mini-dv camera which is connected to my pc with a firewire ( I-Link ) cable. The software I am trying to use is Pinnacle V8 and Moviestar V5. I have no problems aquiring and making movies but when asked to produce them I run into problems. With either program I output the file as a mpeg2 DVD quality but then Windows media player...

Yesterday I took an almighty plunge and purchased a GS-400. Any other owners of this camera feel that the instruction manual is a tad vague? My purpose in posting to this newsgroup is to hopefully identify someone who has one of these cameras who would be able to confirm one or two bits and pieces that I can't get answered from reading the guide. My email address is:

Codecs, don't you just love 'em? Anyway 1. got new PC 2. moved files across - inc a DV file I had edited OK on that machine. I cant actually remember now if the file was captured using Windows Movie Maker, or Puremotion Editstudio 3. new PC has DVD burner, and bundled with Sonic MyDVD 4. created DVD from DV file using Sonic My DVD. Added some chapters, burned