video to laptop

[kateotter]

I'm going to NZ in October and taking my Sony Handycam HD video camera. I also want to take a laptop to store taken images so as not to fill the camera. How do I do this? The book tells me nothing. Thanks in anticipation.

 

[Loiq]

get a seperate hard disc and transfer the files as you go along if you can burn these files to DVD even better so you have a back up plan if the Hard disc (aka scratch disc) goes tits up...

high speed fire wire 400 or 800 lots of RPM for the scratch disc 7200 or higher

PS it's all fragile and don't like get disturbed when your coping...

Have fun

NZ looks brilliant

PPS

copy files full fat so you get maximum resolution

PPPS it's easier with a mac (but not much)

PPPPS test it before you go

 

[vireo]

get a seperate hard disc and transfer the files as you go along if you can burn these files to DVD even better so you have a back up plan if the Hard disc (aka scratch disc) goes tits up...

high speed fire wire 400 or 800 lots of RPM for the scratch disc 7200 or higher

PS it's all fragile and don't like get disturbed when your coping...

Have fun

NZ looks brilliant

PPS

copy files full fat so you get maximum resolution

PPPS it's easier with a mac (but not much)

PPPPS test it before you go

Yeah max resolution will be fine for later quality etc, but depending on the format used (most pure video is captured as AVI, as far as I know), you will need 1Gb of space for every 30-60 seconds of video, so your hard drive is likely to fill up fairly fast! Best to just use tapes and then when you are back/want to edit stuff, link camera to PC via a firewire cable (if lappy has a IEEE1394 port ?) and do them a tape at a time.....

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[Loiq]

sony is bound to AVCHD? it's a form of MPEG4 you'll need to test it, SONY and PC's are a match made in heaven you'll need some software to deal with the codec and Sony "Genius" Motion picture viewer...

test it before you go. We take 4 1.5 T bite drives with us all you need is 160Gb external drive.

Sort the clips as you save'em (bin the crap and keep the good stuff) and you'll be fine.

PS NZ is not a technological back water and they speak english

 

[Decster]

PS NZ is not a technological back water and they speak english

NZ is the new hollywood in film technology thanks to Peter Jackson, so you should have nae probs finding someone in downtown Wellington to help out if they are not too busy making The Hobbit and the LOTR's prequel......