Frustrated and need help

ok, i was asked to take over converting sermons to DVD, nothing fancy but i accepted, the church has a nice sony cam, with a 30 Gb drive in it, data is transferred by USB 2.0

amazingly there is no fire wire port, i need to know how to get the sermons off the HD and onto my storage array, i plug in the usb drive and it does nothing but look silly

thanks
T.

oh yeah i know nothing about this cam

[[Admin] PHugger]

The USB is for still images. Keep looking for the Firewire port. What is the model number?





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[benwilhelm]

Originally Posted by PHugger

The USB is for still images. Keep looking for the Firewire port. What is the model number?

I agree, model number would help us look up info on it.

Since this unit has a built in hard drive, it may only be accessible through USB and there may be no firewire. I realize that's not normally the case.

I'm surprised plugging the USB in does absolutely nothing. Does it show up at all?

Ben

sony dcr-sr40 30 gb hd, HDD, and no FW port, and it is to pull movies off or stills too it is supposed to link up automatically, very sweet cam, it is HD and 16:9 squeeze or 4:3 native, i dont like the squeeze it looks unnatural

[[Admin] PHugger]

OK - the USB is only for transferring still images. You use the writable DVD disk to transfer video to your PC. They probably have some software to allow you to do some basic editing and (full sized) DVD creation.



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reading the online PDF it recognizes it as a removable device like my Ipaq, but i can find the setting to "turn" it into that

funny you should mention software, i have Vegas 6 DVD suite (has Vegas 6, DVD Architect and Sound Forge and it wont see it either just my luck

Blessings
T.

ok got it, in play mode, a menu comes up on the lcd, duhhh i did not have it open

you hit HDD on the lcd and gets it going and it is transferred via USB 2.0

thanks Ya`ALL to get my brain kicked started

Blessings
T.

[[Admin] PHugger]

It needs the "Image Mixer For HDD Camcorder" software that came with the camera (I thought this camera had a writable DVD drive).



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[cmchamp]

Page 21 and 22 of the owners manual. There's a software application that came with it to transfer via USB.
C.

thanks Cory, and PHugger, helps if i read the manual, i dont have the cd, also it is still not seen in vegas and 0 transport control

gimme firewire any day

[[Admin] PHugger]

I'd be interested in what format it stores the data. Normally editing MPEG video is like watch glaciers move (slooooow). They probably provide some software to do some basic editing.

The software is available HERE




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