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is it possible to import video into a precision m70?

post #1 of 14
8/25/05 at 3:19pm
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I have a precision m70 and was wondering if it is possible to import video from my digital video camera so i can watch it as a quicktime.

I do some work with animation and record lots of video reference but it is a bit hard to watch from the camera monitor

Thanks

3dcomp
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post #2 of 14
8/25/05 at 6:36pm
3dcomp,
Do you have the drivers for your digi cam. If not do a search on the make and model of your camera, or go to the makers website.
The camera should be plug and play after installing the drivers. Question? does your M70 have usb 2.0 or firewire and are you running xp?

You will also need software to capture/import your video (movie maker in xp is pretty easy, but a bit clunky). Doing this will take a lot of HDD space (approx 5mins of high qual vid=1gig)...as you are capturing you should be able to watch it on your screen....might be able to view footage without capturing....pretty sure you can...
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post #3 of 14
8/25/05 at 9:30pm
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I think i have the drivers for the camera, still have the Cds and all. I have USB and i will try to capture using premiere that i run on the m70.

I don't want only to watch it but save in my laptop, but i can use some compression to make it smaller and also they are not very long, 30 secs max.

I will try that and see how it goes

thanks

3dcomp
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post #4 of 14
8/25/05 at 10:15pm
Your M70 don't have a firewire port. You have to buy a pmcia card that ve firewire port. Is it a new type of DVcam? You can transfer the video footage through usb? So far what I know is the Video footage have to transfer by firewire or composite and the still picture transfer by usb.
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post #5 of 14
8/25/05 at 11:34pm
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Originally Posted by cheamc
Your M70 don't have a firewire port. You have to buy a pmcia card that ve firewire port. Is it a new type of DVcam? You can transfer the video footage through usb? So far what I know is the Video footage have to transfer by firewire or composite and the still picture transfer by usb.
Can you use USB, quality is pretty good and the speed is similar to firewire, as long as it's USB 2. Quality will depend on the sample rate at which you import the video.

3dcomp, use the highest quality setting when capturing your footage! sucks having budget picture quality and realising you have to go back, re-import and then edit the whole movie....again!
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post #6 of 14
8/26/05 at 7:57am
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True, it does not have a fireware. I tried the USB, installed the driver but the laptop does not see the camera at all, so, i am not sure if it is USB 2.0, probably not?

3dcomp
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post #7 of 14
8/26/05 at 10:03am
Most vid cams have usb1 for transfer of still pictures or frame capture-just buy the pcmcia firewire card-i got a good one for under 25 last time i needed one-
BTW I dont think you need any drivers anymore-pnp in xp should allow yourcamera to be seen as an external disk
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post #8 of 14
8/26/05 at 10:13am
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Thanks, this is going to save me a lot of time if i can get it working. Do you know where i can get such card?

thanks

3dcomp
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post #9 of 14
8/26/05 at 1:13pm
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Never mind, i just ordered one off ebay.

Thanks everyone

3dcomp
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post #10 of 14
8/26/05 at 2:06pm
Firewire is a good choice, it's much better suited to working with digital cameras, USB is a poor substitute. With firewire you can remotely control the camera's tape which makes recording a lot easier.

John
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post #11 of 14
8/26/05 at 6:59pm
Yep, you need a firewire card to capture the video.

For storage, forget quicktime and use something like MPEG2 or MPEG-4 (Divx/XviD). You can get great quality, and with MPEG-4 (I use DivX) you get a fairly small size with high quality video/audio.
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post #12 of 14
8/28/05 at 5:36am
What I know is, video have to go through firewire and not usb even the DVcam came with it. The usb is mean for transfer still picture from the memory card in your Dvcam. This is my experience with my panasonic DVcam.
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post #13 of 14
8/28/05 at 7:02am
My dads video cam has both USB and firewire, but the USB is only good enough for a webcam. Very good QVGA webcam, but definately not DVD quality.
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post #14 of 14
8/29/05 at 8:57pm
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Just got the card and it works perfectly for what i want, thanks guys for all the help

3dcomp
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