DVD Video cameras

[saylorman1]

Hi
I just bought the adobe package that came wih premiere, and got ready to start making my first movie, only to find out I can not capture from my soney dvd-403 video camera. How can I import the dvd video from the little 1.4gb dvd's into premiere. Premiere is looking for a dvi connection, and surprisingly this dvd camera does not have one, and it is one of the lastest by Sony on the market. Is there a program or patch I can get that will allow me to do this?
Thanks
Ken

[tfry]

Hi Ken,

Researching....Please wait....

(I'll see what I can find out for you

[tfry]

Ken,

If you take the disc out of the camera and put it in your computer..what format is it?

[saylorman1]

Originally Posted by tfry

Ken,

If you take the disc out of the camera and put it in your computer..what format is it?

Through windows explore the files look like this on the computer video-ts.bup, video-ts.ifo, video-ts.vob, vts_01_0.bup, vts_01_0.ifo
vts_01_1.vob, vts_01_2.vob
Any help would be appreciated. We just go back from a cruise, and I am trying to combine some of these small 1.4 gb disks into 1 dvd.
Ken

[tfry]

iLink port on the camera (that is what Sony will call it, not Firewire). Should at least have a 4 pin that would go to the 6 pin port on your computer. The 4 - 6 pin cable is available everywhere, including Wal Mart.

Do you have a port that looks like that on your camera?

Also did your camera come with software for capturing footage to your computer?

If it did, you should be able to get the footage onto your 'puter that way, then depending on the format and some more research we can see about getting it into PRE for editing.

Seems Sony cameras are not real friendly as they don't have firewire connections.

I did some reading on the sony camera and it says easy transfer to your computer for editing...so I'm thinking there is some software that came with the camera for this.

Let me know

[saylorman1]

The camcorder is a sony DCR-DVD403, and it only has USB 2.0 I was shocked that it did not have the firewire, or ilink connection. The program that came with it I think is called image miker, or pixel perfect, or something to that nature. Either way none of them have the options to do what I want like my premiere.
Ken

[saylorman1]

what is pictbridge? It says on a site it can connect to a pictbridge.
Ken

[tfry]

I didnt mean to edit it with that program just that there should be a capture type function in there some where, to get the footage onto you computer and then we can see about workarounds for getting it into PRE.

Looks like a proprietary mpeg format of sometype of Sony's.

Still checking on some other sources, I'll let you know anymore information I can dig up

Straight from the Sony site...there has to be something to capture it to your system that came with it.

USB 2.0 Interface2
USB 2.02 interface provides an easy way to connect your DVD Handycam Camcorder to the computer for fast transfer of video and still images to your computer for editing. The camcorder can also be used as an external DVD burner, convenient for making copies of your DVDs or burning edited movies.

[saylorman1]

Ok, I really appreciate your help with this.
Ken

[tfry]

I just edited that post with some more info did you catch it?