Q. I am using a competent Sony HD Videocamera to shoot video for DVD. How do I transfer the footage to my non DV compatible hp laptop which is void of the FireWire port which my editing software ( Sony Vegas) recommends for capturing video direct to the computer. It does not seem to work via HDMI either and I am on a strict budget where a new DV compatible machine or using a great DSLR camera such as the Canon Mark II 5D is out of the question right now. So basically how do I get the footage to my non DV laptop without comprising on quality of the Hd video? Thanks so much for all the responses...let's see who has the best solution to this challenge
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You told us little about the laptop or the Sony HD camcorder. If you are using Vegas, then apparently the laptop is running some flavor of Windows. If you think you need a firewire port, ,then apparently the camcorder stores low compression, high quality video to digital tape (either Digital 8 or miniDV). Without the model numbers it is impossible to know for sure.
If the laptop has an available expansion slot (PCMCIA or ExpressCard), adding a firewire port is relatively inexpensive. If not, then find/use a computer that has a firewire port. Using an analog/digital converter will lose the high definition so not an option.
The HDMI port on the computer will be an AV-out from the computer to a monitor only, so that you can't get inbound video from it is not surprising, but expected.
Get an external hard drive and use a computer with a firewire port to import the video to the external hard drive, disconnect the hard drive, connect it to your computer, launch the video editor, import or drag the video on the external hard drive to the editor, start editing.
You told us little about the laptop or the Sony HD camcorder. If you are using Vegas, then apparently the laptop is running some flavor of Windows. If you think you need a firewire port, ,then apparently the camcorder stores low compression, high quality video to digital tape (either Digital 8 or miniDV). Without the model numbers it is impossible to know for sure.
If the laptop has an available expansion slot (PCMCIA or ExpressCard), adding a firewire port is relatively inexpensive. If not, then find/use a computer that has a firewire port. Using an analog/digital converter will lose the high definition so not an option.
The HDMI port on the computer will be an AV-out from the computer to a monitor only, so that you can't get inbound video from it is not surprising, but expected.
Get an external hard drive and use a computer with a firewire port to import the video to the external hard drive, disconnect the hard drive, connect it to your computer, launch the video editor, import or drag the video on the external hard drive to the editor, start editing.
Video editing: Final cut Pro SLOW/distorted preview, WHY?
jammal hin
i just started using the final cut pro for mac and i'm a beginner though i have edited a few videos on other softwares. my problem is; while using the final cut pro, the preview window on the right which allows you view the ongoing project altogether, does not play as required, the preview is slow and distorted. i'm working on .MOV files i made from my canon 5d mark ii. and i'm making a music video project. how may i resolve this?
Answer
check to make sure its not in slo-mo. And if the footage is not rendered its not going to play right. You will notice if its not rendered by the red bar above the editing sections. Unfortunately you have to render any footage you edit to view it, which takes hours, so you may be able to drag through it to kind of see how it plays out in a stuttered way. And make sure you have tons of hard disk space because it saves the whole thing copied many times for the renderings.
check to make sure its not in slo-mo. And if the footage is not rendered its not going to play right. You will notice if its not rendered by the red bar above the editing sections. Unfortunately you have to render any footage you edit to view it, which takes hours, so you may be able to drag through it to kind of see how it plays out in a stuttered way. And make sure you have tons of hard disk space because it saves the whole thing copied many times for the renderings.
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