importing to mm2 and saving for later editing

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new user...very unskille
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have a new Sony DCR Handycam HC40 using minidv tap
would like to know importing methods...have 1394 cabl

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going on a trip to Alaska and plan to take a lot of tape store off to Dell 9100 but would like to save UNEDITed to a C
helpful hints pleas

thanks
 
Chip said:
new user...very unskilled
Part 1
have a new Sony DCR Handycam HC40 using minidv tape
would like to know importing methods...have 1394 cable

Part 2
going on a trip to Alaska and plan to take a lot of tape store off to
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Dell 9100 but would like to save UNEDITed to a CD
helpful hints please

thanks
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I use a Sony with no problems downloading as avi to my PC directly with the
Firewire port with MM2 to my stock PC running XP. Saving in AVI is the best
quality you can get, but with large files. Each one hour tape will give you
about 13 Gb files. If your talking standard CD's which are rated at 650 mb,
you will encounter space problems. I think it depends on ultimately what
you want as a finished product.

An example:

I recently edited a one hour tape to 45 minutes which gave me a 10.2 Gb AVI
file. I saved it as five large .WMV files which total 418 Mb and also
saved as MPEG-1 files which total 465 Mb files (lower resolution and less
quality).

I archive my original edited .AVI files on tape.

Rich
 
Thanks for the quick response. Am I able using MM to dump
to say a CD-rw and bring back to edit at a later date?
 
I'm not sure if you can do it that way. I just use MM to capture to my
computer as an AVI file. But like I said a "CD" will not hold 1 hours worth
of AVI file.

Rich
 
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