Canon HV20 transfer to DVD

[arobertson1]

I am looking for a program to transfer parts of a high def. miniDV tape to the computer. Most transfer programs I have used want to start from the beginning of the tape to do the transfer and not at a specified time. I am only after certain parts to transfer as they are going to be used on the web (yes I know hi def is overkill but my client wants web snippets from the tape and also a full transfer to DVD, hence the hi def).

Is there a program that I could specify a start and finish time for the transfer? Ideally without to much fuss as he does not want to pay a lot for the web snippets, and to be honest, I normally would not do this if it was not for the fact he also wants a full transfer of some of his tapes.

Many Thanks

Alan

[guns1inger]

If you are going to do a full transfer to DVD anyway, why not transfer the lot, use an editor to isolate and export the clips for the web, and be done with it ?

[rcguy1]

I agree with guns1inger>

[2Bdecided]

Since when did DVD "need" HD?

(Though that's what I use my HV20 for as well).

Cheers,
David.

[arobertson1]

Unfortunately not all the tapes are also converted to DVD and considering he wants this done on the cheap I was looking for a quick and easy way to do this. I also agree that it is overkill for the DVD but I think he has been sold the camera by some clever sales people who have convinced him that it is the way to go.... Any ideas for a quick transfer program that can do exact start and finishes?

[Soopafresh]

HDVsplit allows you to ff and rw from the on screen controls, and it'll automatically split the file on scene changes. But I agree with the above comments that the easiest sway would be to capture the entire tape and edit the resulting M2T file. BTW, the HV20 is a great camera - one of the best.

The easiest way to manipulate the output .M2T files is with VideoRedo

[arobertson1]

HDV Split can't see the camcorder but I found Microsoft's Movie Maker does see it (yes I know it is a flaky package).

[minidv2dvd]

are you using a firewire connection?

[2Bdecided]

HDV Split can't see the camcorder but I found Microsoft's Movie Maker does see it (yes I know it is a flaky package).

Unless you're on Vista (IIRC) WMM doesn't do HD, so it sounds like you have the camcorder in SD (DV) mode - HDVsplit is not for SD - use WinDV for that.

Cheers,
David.