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I have a camcorder Sony DCR-HC22E (Optical 20x zoom) with firewire link to PC and loads of tapes which I want to transfer to main hard drive.
The Windows program gives three options import all using AVI I can select a stop point or all using WMV or split into sections using WMV the latter seems to auto group mistakes and makes it very easy to delete where I have run camera in my pocket would seem I have done that a few times.
However the video size with WMV is much smaller than with AVI and I wonder what is being removed.
Although I do have a BluRay drive on PC and could write as a BluRay never seen any BluRay blanks for sale and would mean very limited as to what players could be used so far more likely to transfer to DVD.
However may try to extract still shots from the video and in that case the video part would be important. But not even sure how to edit or do anything with video at the moment just want to transfer from the tapes.
So what are the pros and cons between formats. I have noted the pictures stored as WMV when played on BluRay player and PC seem squashed with black either side everyone looks tall and thin.
One test bit was 817 MB with WMV and 5.6 GB with AVI which is rather a huge difference for 28 minutes of video.
Any advice welcome. Wedding coming up and will want to transfer to stick or DVD not sure which camera to use. Camcorder very small lens easy to carry will likely last around 1 hour before flat battery. Casio Exilm EX-Z600 will take video has 8 GB card no idea of how long it will go for before either battery flat or 8 GB card full 6 Mega Pixels when used as camera. The Nikon D7000 is clearly the best for video have two batteries fitted with two 32 GB cards but would mean not available for still photos and 16 Mega Pixels with 14 bit RAW files also the best still camera also has the best CCD so will work in very low light and with a 28 - 270 lens has everything one could wish for but idea was to hand hold this and put camcorder on tripod and just let it record.
Looked at my Pentax K10D but max ISO 1600 and at that very grainy so really 400 ISO max OK with F2 fixed lens but that lens is manual focus and I fear loads of soft focus images. With auto focus lens its F3.5 at wide angle so again thinking of tripod mount and use a wireless remote to fire it. This is the only camera I have a large flash for Vivitar 3500 very old but still works all other camera have only built in flash.
Likely I will send grand children off with one camera but clearly with no professional photographer I want to capture as much as I can with what I have and it is the camcorder bit which most worries me as not really into movies.
The Windows program gives three options import all using AVI I can select a stop point or all using WMV or split into sections using WMV the latter seems to auto group mistakes and makes it very easy to delete where I have run camera in my pocket would seem I have done that a few times.
However the video size with WMV is much smaller than with AVI and I wonder what is being removed.
Although I do have a BluRay drive on PC and could write as a BluRay never seen any BluRay blanks for sale and would mean very limited as to what players could be used so far more likely to transfer to DVD.
However may try to extract still shots from the video and in that case the video part would be important. But not even sure how to edit or do anything with video at the moment just want to transfer from the tapes.
So what are the pros and cons between formats. I have noted the pictures stored as WMV when played on BluRay player and PC seem squashed with black either side everyone looks tall and thin.
One test bit was 817 MB with WMV and 5.6 GB with AVI which is rather a huge difference for 28 minutes of video.
Any advice welcome. Wedding coming up and will want to transfer to stick or DVD not sure which camera to use. Camcorder very small lens easy to carry will likely last around 1 hour before flat battery. Casio Exilm EX-Z600 will take video has 8 GB card no idea of how long it will go for before either battery flat or 8 GB card full 6 Mega Pixels when used as camera. The Nikon D7000 is clearly the best for video have two batteries fitted with two 32 GB cards but would mean not available for still photos and 16 Mega Pixels with 14 bit RAW files also the best still camera also has the best CCD so will work in very low light and with a 28 - 270 lens has everything one could wish for but idea was to hand hold this and put camcorder on tripod and just let it record.
Looked at my Pentax K10D but max ISO 1600 and at that very grainy so really 400 ISO max OK with F2 fixed lens but that lens is manual focus and I fear loads of soft focus images. With auto focus lens its F3.5 at wide angle so again thinking of tripod mount and use a wireless remote to fire it. This is the only camera I have a large flash for Vivitar 3500 very old but still works all other camera have only built in flash.
Likely I will send grand children off with one camera but clearly with no professional photographer I want to capture as much as I can with what I have and it is the camcorder bit which most worries me as not really into movies.