Can PD6 Capture from HDD camera

John

Newbie Location: Alveston, Bristol, UK Joined: Mar 06, 2008 12:10 Messages: 31 Offline

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Mar 27, 2008 12:08

My friend has a Sony HDD camcorder ( not HD), & is thinking of purchasing PD6, because he is impressed with the results I get with PD6 & my Sony DV camcorder. We have tried to capture from his camera via the USB2 connection without success (his camera does not have a fire wire connector). Is it possible to capture from his camera? or will he have to make a DVD of his video & then import this into PD6? Bearing in mind that HDD HD can be imported via USB2. Best regards

John

Dafydd B

Senior Contributor Joined: Aug 26, 2006 08:20 Messages: 11973 Offline

Mar 27, 2008 12:59

John,

A bit of reading for you:
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Dafydd
PS the answer is Yes.... thought you should read the information posted by Brady.

John

Newbie Location: Alveston, Bristol, UK Joined: Mar 06, 2008 12:10 Messages: 31 Offline

Mar 27, 2008 14:34

Thanks for your reply Dafydd, I have read the posts by Brady that you recommended, but they all seem to refer to High Definition, my friends camera has a Hard Disk Drive, but is not High Def. A thought has just occurred to me, could we just import the media from the camera? I do not have his camera with me at present, but if you think this is possible I would get him to bring it over to try. Best regards

John

Dafydd B

Senior Contributor Joined: Aug 26, 2006 08:20 Messages: 11973 Offline

Mar 27, 2008 15:22

Sorry John,

I must have had a "light bulb blow".

I would "hook up" your friend's camera to your PC and
a) see if PD recognises it and can use "Capture" to bring the video in or
b) see if your PC see's it as another Hard Drive and then you can simply copy (or cut) and paste the data onto your PC's Hard Drive.

I would not recomend trying to edit files on a camera. I would also store the data in C:My Works for example ( D E or F hard drive).

It's the file format you need to be aware of with any hard drive camera, just look at the file extension. If PD recognises it.... off you go.

Dafydd
PS I have instructed my left foot to kick my right leg....in penance

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John

Newbie Location: Alveston, Bristol, UK Joined: Mar 06, 2008 12:10 Messages: 31 Offline

Mar 28, 2008 07:16

Thanks again Dafydd, your the top man. Because the HDD camera makes it's own clips & stores them in the mpeg2 format, I could as you suggested treat the cameras hard drive like any other hard drive & simply import the clips as media files straight into PD6 eliminating the need to capture them. From there on it's plain sailing. Problem solved. My friend is now going to purchase PD6, & join this forum. Best regards

John

Kintara

Newbie Location: Bristol, England, UK Joined: Aug 29, 2007 15:43 Messages: 38 Offline

Mar 28, 2008 13:04

Hii John,
Tell your friend to go ahead and buy the Sony. I use a Sony HDD camera myself. I connect it to the USB port where it recognised by Windows as a USB mass storage drive. From Explorer I copy the clips (.mpg files) to my C: or D: drive. I can access these from PD6 with no trouble at all.

When you say capture, I just import them into the library (still havent learnt the correct name for the top left screen with all the clips)

Best of luck

Kintara
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