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Windows Forum / Windows XP / Photos / November 2004Putting home videos from camcorder to disk
I do not have a DVD recorder on my Sony VAIO, but would like to know how I can put my home videos from my Sony camcorder onto a disk to be able to play it on my DVD player that is connected to my TV. Thanks! You can purchase an external DVD drive and connect it to your VAIO portable computer and then copy to it. Probably around $150.00 with copying software included. You can also buy the latest, fastest, fanciest little baby from Sony, at $229.00 available here: http://www.sonystyle.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/eCS/Store/en/-/USD/SY_Display ProductInformation-Start?ProductSKU=DRX710UL&Dept=cpu_dvdcdburners&CategoryName= cpu_Sony_PCAccessories_CD%2fDVDBurn_DVDBurners This is if your VAIO is a portable computer. If it is a desktop, you can add an internal DVD drive, available at around $80.00 so it would be much cheaper and Sony also has such. If you don't want to do this, you can also use an external DVD drive with your desktop as long as you have either a USB2 or FireWire port and you probably have a least a FireWire port, just like a portable VAIO will have. The next step is to play the DVD disk you made with your DVD player. Easier said than done. Lucky for you the confusion about DVD formats has been solved (almost) by the fact that new DVD drives will copy to all DVD formats (-R,-RW,+R,+RW and now double sided DVD). So you need to look at your DVD player manual and see which format it can play and then copy using this format. For more about copying and playing DVD take a look at this site: http://www.videohelp.com/ > I do not have a DVD recorder on my Sony VAIO, but would like to know how I > can put my home videos from my Sony camcorder onto a disk to be able to play > it on my DVD player that is connected to my TV. Thanks! So, is it my understanding that I cannot put my home videos on a disk without a DVD recorder to play on my home DVD player that is connected to my TV? > You can purchase an external DVD drive and connect it to your VAIO portable > computer and then copy to it. Probably around $150.00 with copying software [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > play > > it on my DVD player that is connected to my TV. Thanks! You can. You can make a VCD, SVCD, or miniDVD. All of these are made on normal CDs. The minidvd gives you 30 mins or so of almost dvd quality video on a normal CD. To makde minDVD: 1. First make sure your DVD player is OK this format. many are. http://www.videohelp.com/dvdplayers 2. Save your movie as DV AVI. 3. Convert it to MPEG2 using TMPGenc or bbMPEG http://www.tmpgenc.net http://members.cox.net/beyeler/bbmpeg.html Note the maximum bitrate should not exceed 4Mbps. 4. Author it (make menus and chapters) using DVDAuthorGUI http://www.videohelp.com/~liquid217/dvdauthorgui.pl 5. Burn the two folders created by it using your cd burning software (Nero?).  SignatureRehan www.rehanfx.org - get more effects and transitions for Windows Movie Maker > So, is it my understanding that I cannot put my home videos on a disk > without [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] >> play >> > it on my DVD player that is connected to my TV. Thanks! Not if you want DVD quality (that is no degradation from your camcorder tape). There is another way around this. If you have a MiniDV tape digital camcorder, you transfer the content of the tape to your hard drive using Movie Maker 2 which is included with XP. You do your editing with Movie Maker 2 (or other software), save the edited file and copy the file back on a new tape. Then you play the edited tape with your camcorder to your TV. Top quality viewing. Just be aware that one hour of video saved to your hard drive will make a file of 13 GB. Make sure you have the space. > So, is it my understanding that I cannot put my home videos on a disk without > a DVD recorder to play on my home DVD player that is connected to my TV? [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > included. You can also buy the latest, fastest, fanciest little baby from > > Sony, at $229.00 available here: http://www.sonystyle.com/is-bin/INTERSHOP.enfinity/eCS/Store/en/-/USD/SY_Display ProductInformation-Start?ProductSKU=DRX710UL&Dept=cpu_dvdcdburners&CategoryName= cpu_Sony_PCAccessories_CD%2fDVDBurn_DVDBurners > > This is if your VAIO is a portable computer. If it is a desktop, you can add > > an internal DVD drive, available at around $80.00 so it would be much [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > play > > > it on my DVD player that is connected to my TV. Thanks! |
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