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I just bought a Panasonic PV-GS33. PV-GS33 I've installed a fire PCI port and cable and I can now dowload to my PC, but I have a few questions
1. Some cameras record direct to Mpeg4, this one does not. What is the advantage of direct Mpeg4 recording?
2. My conversion software is MyDVD that came with my DVD burner, What is some good software to easily transfer, edit, and compile video to my hard drive and to DVD? (something not too pricey)
3. Fbody DV mount? I know I've seen camaera mounts to hold the camera in your car...anybody remember where to get these? Can you install them without harming the interrior surfaces of the car?
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Wish I could help but all I know how to do is point and push the button. Can you say DUMB
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MPEG4 is just another format. I think the compression is better than MPEG2 which is what DVD's used when they first came out.
Try searching on www.videohelp.com - lots of info(sometimes too much perhaps) at that site.
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QuickTime is MPEG 4 and is more highly compressed, which means less information. The advantage on an MPEG 4 capible camera is that it uses less memory when recording but produces a not to good video picture. MPEG 2 is the DVD standard and produces much better quality videos. I had My DVD which came with my PC when I bought it. If your DVD player came with a full version, it might be OK. I found the one that I had wouldn't do true MPEG2 and the DVD's I made looked more like VHS quality than DVD quality because of too much compression. I ended up buying Adobe Encore DVD maker which allows me to make high quality, true DVD quality, DVD's. I can also do titling and menues just as they are done on store bought DVD movies. It's very expensive to buy seperately but can be purchased as part of a video edit collection which is also very expensive but you get much more for your money.
MPEG STANDARDS:
The most common implementations of the MPEG-1 standard provide a video resolution of 352-by-240 at 30 frames per second (fps). This produces video quality slightly below the quality of conventional VCR videos. MPEG-2 offers resolutions of 720x480 and 1280x720 at 60 fps, with full CD-quality audio. This is sufficient for all the major TV standards, including NTSC, and even HDTV. MPEG-2 is used by DVD-ROMs. MPEG-2 can compress a 2 hour video into a few gigabytes. While decompressing an MPEG-2 data stream requires only modest computing power, encoding video in MPEG-2 format requires significantly more processing power. MPEG-4 is a graphics and video compression algorithm standard that is based on MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 and Apple QuickTime technology. Wavelet-based MPEG-4 files are smaller than JPEG or QuickTime files, so they are designed to transmit video and images over a narrower bandwidth and can mix video with text, graphics and 2-D and 3-D animation layers. MPEG-4 was standardized in October 1998 in the ISO/IEC document 14496.
If you find an Fbody DV mount, please let me know. I haven't been able to fimd one.
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I have what seems to be decent DVD conversion software. It will convert AVI to Mpeg2 and do DVD titleling and other wizzy stuff. What it doesn't do well is rip the raw video (AVI???) off of the camera. I would like to rip the video on to drive space and then eidt and compile to DVD. So what I need is just simple means to upload from the camera. My software wants to burn it to DVD as it uploads. It will burn DVD format (which I beleive is Mpeg 2 with a seperate MP3 audio track??) to the hard drive, but in that format it is hard to work with further.
Thanks again, good stuff. I'll keep yo uposted on the mount...I know I've seen them somewhere.
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I found Arcsoft Showbiz on my machine...I don't remember loading it, but I think it also came with the DVD burner. It will capture direct from teh camera and save as AVI, Mpeg-1 or Mpeg-2. Seems to work well. I just ripped about 18 minutes of video to AVI. I'll nave to burn it in Mpeg-2 to a DVD and play it on the TV to see how it looks.
Mike, that link looks pretty good, like you said, maybe too much info? It will take a little time to search. It looks like a good resource though for sure.
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