On the PC, this process is a little more complicated. WMM doesn't let you record back to tape, which in my opinion is a serious omission, so you'll have to purchase a third-party application. I'll provide an overview of these applications in the next issue of Connected Home EXPRESS,

Did this ever happen? Can you tell me where to find the information?

Thanks.

My company has just purchased a Sony TRV-740 digital video camera. Being a novice I don't know how to edit a shot vieo and add in a voice over. The video is being shot for our training department and will be used as work instructions. I have been trying to edit the shot video just by using the cameras' edit features and linking it to a TV. My goal is to edit the video (basically taking out sections I don't want) and adding my voice describing the process steps. I have a PC with Windows XP and the camera did come with a CD called Pixela ImageMixer Ver. 1.0 for Sony. Should I be editing on the PC and downloading the edited version onto a VCR tape, which is the initial media I want to use? In the future I may be using DVD or CD media.

Thank you for any assistnace you can provide.

Sincerely,

Don Ferry

Hi; I just stumbled onto your site while trying to find a solution to what I thought (before spending a fair amount of $$) would be an easy problem: how to output a digitally-edited movie back to tape. I have a Pentium-IV PC with Windows XP, and just purchased an Adaptec Duo-Connect firewire+USB2 card which came bundled with MGI VideoWave 4. Transferring a sequence from my Sony Digital-8 camcorder via the IEEE1394 cable was easy, editing and cleaning up the sequence was even easier. But then I could find no way to export the edited sequence back to tape! What a bummer: the whole idea was to transfer all my home movies (yes, including 16mm, 8mm and Super-8, through VHS, Video-8, and Hi-8, all the way to Digital-8), edit and perhaps title (simply) and export back to fresh Digital or S-VHS tape in order to share with family and archive it (until the next format comes along). How the heck does one do this with a PC? The word "export" can't be found on Video-Wave 4, at least not the version that was bundled with the Adaptec card, nor is it anywhere in Windows Movie Maker. I'm not going out to buy a Mac. Any suggestions short of spending hundreds of dollars on another video editing package (an option I decided against when purchasing the Adaptec card) ? I'd greatly appreciate your comments. If they are to be published on Connected Home Express, could you let me know when and how to find them? Thanks in advance. Sincerely, Gerry Ahronheim

I would like to copy from my DVD movie to VHS, is there a way on my TV, it's coming out blue/scrambled?

ould like to copy from my DVD movie to VHS, is there a way on my TV, it's coming out blue/scrambled

I need help, too! After editing my movie on Pixela Imagemixer, I realized I could not export it back to my camera! Does anyone know how to export without spending hundreds of dollars? This movie is due Feb. 4th, 2004. Thanks!

I have a sony DCR-RTV19 digital camcorder, it came with an ImageMixer program for the computer. I would loke to know how to transfer or copy a video from the camcorder to a regular VCR, thank you

After reading your acticle i still dont understand how to record a Windows Movie Maker to a VHS... please help.

I have a Sharp 7800 Digital Viewcam w/Smart Media. My nephew took pictures and I don't know what I should have to transfer or copy video from camcorder to regular VCR tape. I am pressed for time because of a home makeover contest today at 5p. I don't know the step by step procedures needed to get results necessary to give my copy of tape. Help please.

I want to copy a home video from one VCR to another. How do I do I hook them up, which one gets the original tape? HELP! Thanks

I've decide to upgrade the home PC and choose to buy one of the new Macintosh Systems. They come complete for movies with a suite called iLife. You dont need to read the manual. There isn't one!

The Sony D8 camera can save from the Mac any movie. I can also make DVDs real easy. I wish I'd got a Macintosh years ago!

hi, my name is adam and i have made my fair share of movies but my problem is getting them from my 8mm vide camera tape onto a normal vhs tape ,help anyone ??

I realy need help!I have one VCD. How can I convert one VCD player to 4 set TV to let more people see my recorded picture.

if you own a dvd burner you an burn your movie to dvd then run your dvd player through your vcr on the aux chanel pop in a tape play the dvd and press record

Hey i was just wondering , wat is the standerd link cable/ transfer betweeen a Digital camcorder and the pc, is it a standerd USB. CHeers

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To record digital video back to tape in Windows Movie Maker, go to FILE, and then click SAVE MOVIE FILE, and then click EXPORT TO DV CAMERA. A wizard will pop up, and tell you what to do from then on.

Hope this helps! André Laval Montréal, Québec

Hello,

Hello,

For all of you who are having problems doing this in Windows, get a Mac. It's so much easier.

I will not accept your tolerance!

Goodness! I'm searching the net to find the answer, lucky enough to find help in your site.

I have a PANASONIC NV-GS11 Mini DV, my pc is a windows xp professional with pentium III 1 Ghz processor,and USB slot. The software that comes with the Mini DV device when taking still pictures is working,(DV Studio 3 is for taking still pictures only.. ) and a connection with the software is working, but when i try to use the windows movie maker 2.0 it cannot find my Mini DV device. It does not also listed any capturing device except my audio device from sound card.

What should I do? Is it possible to use USB port for transferring recorded video (tape/digital) to pc? Why my windows movie maker cannot find my Mini DV device (the Mini DV device exist in the hardware manager,and recognized by my windows xp professional) but the software that comes with my Mini DV device is working.

Thanks and GOd Bless!!! Merry CHristmas!!!

You can write back with Windows Movie Maker 2. See http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/moviemaker/expert/bridgman_03august04.mspx

can i record from VCD or CD with my PC

I use a Sony Vaio. Is it easier to record a dvd onto a PC and back to a tape or a tape through a VCR to a PC/edit it/send it back to a tape?

Also, is there a way to edit out time/date stamps on a tape?

Thank you!

i am trying to save my old VCR tapes. i want to put them on my computer & then save them on dvd. how can i do this? i heard that if i have a vcr player with s-video ... that would work. i have both a pc and a mac. any suggestions?

I have jvc 400 X digital zoom. Also I have panasonic VSR. I want to make a record from camera to VHS casette. Can you help me how can i record my casette? Thanks for helping

I have a DVR-TRC350 Sony camcorder. How can a transfer the video to a VHS tape w/ the time/date stamp. I can transfer it but with out the time/date stamp. Can you help me?? Thanks.

When you finish editing a videotape using iMovie, you might want to save it back on a video tape. To do so, follow these instructions:

1. Connect the computer to the VCR through an analog-to-digital converter, like the Canopus converter, using video-in on the converter. Use the firewire connection out of the computer to the converter, and then use the red yellow and white RCA cables to connect to the video-in ports on the VCR.

2. Open iMovie, go to File, go to Share.

3. Choose “videocamera.” Follow the directions on the screen.

4. Press “record,” or “play and record” to record a new video tape on the VCR.

Hi, I´m a student, I´m from Mexico. I a homework but I really not how do it. the question is:

Look at three TV soap operas and determine whether these would be useful cultural or language content. How would you edit a videotape of such material.

Could you help me? thank you very much

i need software image mixer ver1.5 for my sony camera

I have found that converting my old analogue handycam tapes to digital recordings is just a matter of linking the old and the new Sony handycams. However, as with a lot of people who face with the same problem, how do we transfer the recordings to a computer and eventually burning them to VCD or DVD, without having to own a Mackintosh? It does appear that manufacturers of handycams or video cameras such as Sony, JVC, Sharp etc. have simply not committed themselves to present the buyers of their products with a built-in solution for this problem.With the resources available to every one of these huge companies, it's a shame most buyers of their products have to turn to the internet for assistance.

here I found the site that is really helpfull

http://www.engadget.com/2004/06/08/how-to-tuesday-make-digital-movies-the-easy-way

You need IEEE 1394 cable to record movies from digital camera into ur pc, mann i need to buy one :// c ya all later.

i am trying to record a vhs tape onto another vhs tape. i thought i knew how to hook them up, but it is not working. please help!!!

Hi I am trying to copy from a rca auto shot camera which is on a small 30vhsc tape to a vcr tape. I can not get it to transfer. Can you help me?, Please!

I need it very badly!

I need to export my edited video project of 85 mins. in two halves on to Sony hmp tape 90 mins. in my Sony camera DCR-TRV355E because the tape will only take about 60 minutes because of the digital input.I have exported 46' 38". When I set the playhead at, say 46' 34", and click Share the playhead flicks back to the beginning and starts there. How do I get it to start exporting at 46' 34" please ?

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hi i want to record a video onto a camcorder then i want to take it off and edit it , then my problem is i want to know how to take the dited video and run it back onto the same kind of tape i taped the video originally from , so basically i want to run the edited version of video back onto the camcorder tape so it is on the tape from cam corder edited.

Hi, Question? I have two dvd/vcr recorders (samsung) with a tv moniter.. I am trying to record my digital tapes at the same time one in dvd the other in vcr. using one recorder dvd and the other for vcr..I can not get both to copy at the same time..how can I set this up...thank you, John Ethridge

im looking for a disc .to set up my panasonic nv-gs11 .on to my pc so i can make films from my camcorder .help me please

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