Digital Camcorders, Video, MPEG-2 and MS Movie Maker 2

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Question: If I buy a hard drive based camcorder (JVC GZMG50) - which records
in MPEG-2 format, can I use movie maker 2 to edit these files as I did with
my old Mini DV camcorder ? And what is the real deal with the lossy
compression ? WIll Movie Maker degrade my cideo footage ??

Thanks for any input.

Henning
 
HenningThiel said:
Question: If I buy a hard drive based camcorder (JVC GZMG50) - which
records
in MPEG-2 format, can I use movie maker 2 to edit these files as I did
with
my old Mini DV camcorder ? And what is the real deal with the lossy
compression ? WIll Movie Maker degrade my cideo footage ??

Thanks for any input.

Henning
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Your mini DV camcorder produced DV-AVI files which are fully compatible
with WMM.
WMM is exceedingly fussy about what file types it will work with.
Remember that WMM is a free utility, MS do not pay propriatary license
fees (or it wouldn't be free!) Hence incompatibilty with quicktime etc etc
MPEG2 is a codec dependent file type. It will be a safe assumption that
the JVC won't produce MPEG's that are WMM compliant.
The JVC *may* come bundled with free conversion software? That may
allow the MPEGs to be converted to WMV or AVI?
But the simple answer is, MPEG2's are not compatible with WMM.
 
HenningThiel said:
Question: If I buy a hard drive based camcorder (JVC GZMG50) - which records
in MPEG-2 format, can I use movie maker 2 to edit these files as I did with
my old Mini DV camcorder ? And what is the real deal with the lossy
compression ? WIll Movie Maker degrade my cideo footage ??

Thanks for any input.

Henning
Click to expand...
 
HenningThiel said:
Question: If I buy a hard drive based camcorder (JVC GZMG50) - which records
in MPEG-2 format, can I use movie maker 2 to edit these files as I did with
my old Mini DV camcorder ? And what is the real deal with the lossy
compression ? WIll Movie Maker degrade my cideo footage ??

Thanks for any input.

Henning
Click to expand...
 
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