Comments on: First forays into video editing on Windows XP

By: Mindy

Mindy — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 18:41:53 +0000

@dan: The Canon HV20 uses MiniDV tapes. See this post for a discussion about tape vs. hard drive video:

http://mindymcadams.com/tojou/2007/tape-vs-hard-drive-vs-card-and-avchd/

You could use software to convert your MPEG files to a format that Windows Movie Maker could read, I would assume. The camera should have come with some kind of software — do you have a CD for it?

By: dan

dan — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 03:44:00 +0000

Hi Mindy,
The paper just bought me a nice SONY SR200 with a built in harddrive. The problem is the MPEG format doesn’t work with Movie Maker.

Does this camera use the MPEG format? I am just curious how you got it to work? I am desperately trying to find the right camera to do multimedia journalism. Any help would be great.

Just email me if you can at dtelvock@freelancestar.com

By: Mindy

Mindy — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 15:00:19 +0000

I had a Mac (PowerBook) in the mid-1990s, then was Windows-ONLY from about 1998 through December 2006, when I got my MacBook Pro. The j-school where I teach is almost all Windows.

So I’m not one of those longtime Mac fanatics. I’m perfectly comfortable in Windows. But I must say, years of miserable, painful, frustrating experiences in Windows make me utterly flabbergasted when ANYTHING works right the first time in that operating system.

By: Cliff Etzel

Cliff Etzel — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:34:38 +0000

turned on the camera. Almost instantly, I got a message asking if I wanted to capture the video with Windows Movie Maker. W00t! How easy is that?

You almost sound like you just hooked up to a mac..

Macophiles would have users believe that using a windows box is more difficult - your experience seems to prove otherwise.

Next step is to start using SONY Vegas Studio Platinum edition - that’s where the real fun begins.

Welcome to the dark side..

Cliff Etzel - Solo Video Journalist
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