sony camcorder/kodak digital picture frame

[0mike0]

anybody can answer this one?----1st off,i have windows xp--i just bought a kodak m820 digital picture frame,and a sony dcr-hc52 mini dv camcorder--the kodak frame plays videos--the videos have to be in MOV,AVI,MPEG1,or MPEG4 format---the only video program i have is "windows movie maker"---it saves the videos from my camcorder in WMV format,so i can not transfer the video to my kodak frame--so my question is,anybody know a video program that will save my videos from my camcorder in "MOV,AVI,MPEG1,or MPEG4"format?--of course the 1st thing i tried was "video format converter" programs--they dont seem to work--they appear to change the WMV format to MOV,but when i load the movie into my kodak frame,it says "file not supported"---i know my kodak frame will accept true MOV format videos,because i found a MOV video on the internet,saved it,and loaded it right into my kodak frame and it worked----so thats my question-***does anybody know a video program that will save videos from my sony camcorder in true MOV or AVI or MPEG1 or MPEG4 format,so i can load them into my kodak frame?*** i sure would be grateful to u--thnx,Mike................................p.s.--now i have also tried WinDV,which captures the video right from my camcorder and saves it AVI type1 or AVI type2--i made a 20 second video and saved it in both AVI types--loaded them both into my kodak frame,but same thing,when the frame tried to play the video,the frame just says "format not supported"

[minidv2dvd]

there are lots of video encoding guis in the tools section. you might try avidemux or handbrake to encode the avis you get when capturing with windv into mpeg-4.

[Cornucopia]

I would suggest:

1. Open and edit in WMM.
2. Save/Export, but NOT as WMV, but DV-AVI (type1).
3. Download and Install XVID video codec, Lame mp3 audio codec, and MediaCoder converting app (if MC doesn't already include these in its install)
4. Convert you DV-AVI to an AVI or MP4 format using the XVID & LAME MP3 codecs.

Should look and sound good. However, you may have to test excerpt with different target bitrates to find the sweet spot of quality + smooth playback.

Scott