just brought panasonic nv gs17eb no software

[hades8840]

hi all brought this today as i needed a camcorder and is my first one was hoping it would have everything i needed but nope no such luck.
i brought a firewire card as i was told it would increase the speed on transfers so i can burn my home movies to disc.....but the manual says i need motionDV studio yet i cant find a download for it anywhere.
not even sure the software is usable on the gs17eb model as the manual is somewhat hard to understand but i need some sort of software to transfer the video to my pc so any help i would very grateful for

[steveryan]

Hi, try this - https://www.videohelp.com/tools?tool=WinDV

As for transfer speed, if your recordings last for an hour then it will take an hour to transfer to your pc.

[edDV]

OK so you have a PAL MiniDV camcorder and a IEEE-1394 card and cable.

To get to DVD the basic steps are:

1. Transfer DV video from camcorder to a DV-AVI file (PC) or DV-Quicktime file (Mac) on the PC's HDD. WinDV is a good free program to do this on a PC.

2. Edit the video and audio.
various software*

3. Encode to MPeg2 (DVD standard)
https://www.videohelp.com/dvd
various encoders*

4. Author the DVD
various software*

Also see guides
Convert DV to DVD
https://www.videohelp.com/guides.php?tools=&madeby=&formatconversionselect=DV+to+DVD&ho...or+List+Guides

* software exists for each step ot the process. Some is free. Some costs.

Typical commercial software suites that cover all steps include

Nero, Roxio and Adaptec class - very basic.

next tier:

Sony Vegas Movie Studio
ULead Video Studio
Adobe Premiere Elements
Pinnacle Studio
etc.

next tier - semi pro to pro:

Sony Vegas+DVD
Adobe Premiere Pro
Apple Final Cut Pro
ULead Media Studio
Pinnacle Liquid
Avid DV express
etc.

and up

[hades8840]

thankyou to both of you i already have some dvd encoding software like nero 6 and tmpgenc virtualdub etc .....but i guess i was duped into buying the firewire and cable as usb would of done it anyway was told would speed the transfer over i will get what i need and let you know how i got on thanks again

[JimJohnD]

The USB port on a miniDV camera usually only transfers stills and a compressed "streamable" video. To get the full quality of DV you have to use the IEEE-1394 port and "transfer" (not capture) software like WinDV or ScenalyzerLive.

[edDV]

thankyou to both of you i already have some dvd encoding software like nero 6 and tmpgenc virtualdub etc .....but i guess i was duped into buying the firewire and cable as usb would of done it anyway was told would speed the transfer over i will get what i need and let you know how i got on thanks again

You have exactly what you need. IEEE-1394 is the only way to get a quality transfer from the camcorder to to your HDD and back. DV camera transfer is always 1x.