Hello, I barely have experience with video capturing and video editing. Heres the story: I have a video project due. What I want is also some video editing. All I have at my disposal is a Sony Handycam(CCD-TRV65 NTSC) , a laptop with a video port, and Ulead Video Studio 6. My camera uses 8MM and it says it can also use Hi8. Is there anyway I can plug my camera into the laptop video port, edit my movie, and the edited movie would be recorded into my 8MM or Hi8 tape? Thank you... P.S. My project is due in four days!
you need an analog video capture card.but..what is a video port?more than likely you can transfer the movie to the puter and edit it..coming back out is another thing..i hope someone can help you more..i am not familiar with laptops.
I can only relate my own experiences with my computer, Sony Camcorder (TRV20), and numerous editing packages including Ulead and Premiere. I'm pretty new at this myself. If you have an S-video out on your computer you should be able connect to your camcoder. That doesn't necessarily get you where you want to be though. Ulead will write certain formats directly to the camera via the firewire interface but you want to use the video out. Be aware that using video out means that your video/movie will be seen by the camcorder as a signal within a signal. (i.e., you're seeing the video from some viewer within your computer desktop screen). If you can go full screen and still get a capture from the camera then you'll probably be OK. I've experienced numerous occassions where DivX encoded video will appear for a couple of seconds on my Camcorder and then become blacked out. I don't think it's a copyrite/macrovision issue. It seems more like a video format problem. Going to my camera via the IEEE 1394 interface is even more picky in terms of what it will or won't accept. I suspect you'll have less problems if you use your computer to edit the video and then use the S-Video out to copy it to a VCR.
