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I'm looking for good quality stock footage (MiniDV or DVD quality) to insert into my own movies. Does anyone know of a source? Most of the stock footage sites on the web are aimed at professional or broadcast organisations and are prohibitvely expensive. thanks Declan

Hi: Is there a digital camcorder which can be used as an analogue-digital converter in real time? I know that most can take an analogue input, record it on MiniDV, then play it to my computer down the firewire line. But I've heard there are camcorders which can cut out the middleman and will allow me to input the analogue at the same time as I'm capturing the digital on the computer.

Hi! I've been wondering... A JVC camera has 16x optical and 700x digital zoom... a Canon camera has 22x optical and 440x digital zoom... first question is: Which camera will zoom in THE MOST? Other question is: What are those digital zoom multiplications good for, if they can't be compared to the optical zoom? Looking foreward to some good answers!

Hi, Did somebody do that for Canon GL2 ? Dmitri. http://www.bealecorner.com/trv900/respat/ Resolution Test Patterns

DVD-R's are more compatible than DVD+R's allegedly Nope.

it's a Sony TRV-530 there are lots and lots of screws marked with an arrow but even if I undo them all the camera does not come apart willingly. is there a special trick please tell me for a closer look of the precise model: www.rapati.com/trv530.html any help would be appreciated

Hi All, Does somebody have an experience? I tried to write a high quality DVD - about one hour video on one 4.7 DVD disk. The DVD video player can't play this disk, the picture dies, chokes, stops, pulls, etc. The same player can play DVDs with a normal quality - 2 hours on one 4.7 DVD disk. Is it normal or something's wrong with my DVD player? Should it play these DVDs, or I want too much? The...

i sincerely hope someone can help me with this, cos i'm slowly going mad, and i have to fix this soon for a degree project i need to edit. i have a JVC GR-DVL157 that i'm running via a Firewire cable into my newly purchased 3-port PCI Firewire card. I've been trying all day to get Windows ME to recognise the ******* but to no avail. I can assure you i have tried every driver and quick-fix...

Help please - what options exist for live mixing from Mini DV camcorders? I need to record about an hour to 90 minutes of a live event, have three appropriate cams, but doing a live mix would probably work best. I don't mind hiring within a fairly tight budget.

Hi All I have been using a JVC GR-DVX (analogue) for many years but, since getting a decent PC and into editing, I now find the 570K pixel CCD (don't know how many are effective) on the JVC produces poor quality results when recording and editing on to DVD or playing back and watching on a 32" widescreen. So I've been looking at Sony's PC330 and TRV80 as my next possible buys. I'm not *that*...

I've finally managed to accumulate some free time to sort out the house, and wish to convert all my home movies from vhs to dvd (about 300 hrs). I bought a new computer a few weeks ago, and had a second hdd added to use for editing the video's (120gb) and a dvd +/- rw. So, I'm in need of a good guide to explain what I need to buy to get started, and how to use it all. Online sources, magazines or...

A friend has sent a NTSC tape to me to put onto DVD. However (you knew it was coming, let's face it) when capturing into my Matrox RTX100 Xtreme Pro capture card on the end of Premier Pro the colour pic has a green bar at the bottom of the frame. If I switch the system to NTSC capture the frame is filled but no colour :( I'm guessing that the signal from the VCR is PAL60 rather than true NTSC,...

Hi guys, I've heard bad things about Firewire cards with the Via chipset and Windows XP. I have WinXP, can anyone recommend a retailer that supplies a card that uses a different chip set? what are you guys using out there? TIA,

Slightly OT as not specific to digital video... Anyone used Paglight lights? If so, what are your opinions? Cheers Jake

Hi Gorf, Thank you for your answer. Yes, I know the difference between NTSC/PAL/SECAM but living in States I need the NTSC one. I know that the resolution should be better for the PAL version, by the way what's the real resolution can be supported by this PAL version camcoder named XM2 ? Is it really 625 lines or just two times less? I know that the most of small camcoders can write only in...

"Tony Morgan" wrote in message ... In message , John Russell writes "Pat Carpenter" wrote in message ... Need suggestions for hardware and software to...

Hi yall. The problem is the movie in PAL-DV quality (the default WMM2 setting) takes 13Gb for 1 hour. I need to code it too take a third of that size to fit on DVD. Which software can do that? If I take the variable bit-rate coding that WMM2 offers the picture is way too choppy and the file size is drastically lower. I guess there has to be some middle ground.

Hi all, i'm going on holiday to amercica soon - was wondering what the best way is to charge my camera when i'm over there. I've got a Sony TRV-60 .....and its come with a "AC POWER ADAPTOR" which says "AC IN ~ 100 - 240V 50/60 Hz" So i'm guessing it will be ok to get a UK - US mains adapter, and plug it straight into this thing right?? Want to make sure before i go blowing anything...

Really? Ever managed to buy a disk pre-fomatted in NTFS? Again you seem blistfully unaware that cloning software is capable of partioning, indeed thats' what it's creating when it does a restore! Many use cloning software to transfer to a new virgin hardisk and don't call up any additional software to do it. It would appear you are not keeping up with the latest software tehcnology!

I have been asked by a relative to suggest a camcorder for them to buy, MiniDV at around £400 to £500. They are looking for something simple to use, and it will be for the usual family videos, so no need for anything too high tech. They will want to copy it to VHS tape, and it may be that in the future they will download to PC and put on to DVD. Any suggestions, and any good deals on at the...