DRM-2001G

[Garywroberts]

Does anyone live here in Bradenton Florida ? I just bought a Polaroid DRM-2001G and a liteon 16x external dvd rw drive and a sony dcr-hc38 camera. I understand I'msupposed to download these videos to my computer then onto one of these other machines ( I am 62 years old -- so this is new to me ) but I have good computer equipment -- I'm just rying to learn how to use it.

So does anybody live here in Bradenton, Florida, who can come over and hook this up for me, so I can download my videos from my Sony dcr-hc38, and copy to or burn onto a dvd so I can have dvd's of my videos to send to family ??

I need to know how to hook up my equipment, download,, and burn, and make copies.

thank you

my name is Gary

[redwudz]

You will need a FireWire 1394A connection or card for your computer and a FireWire cable to go from the camera to the card. It's a common cable, the camera may have came with one. If not, they are usually 4pin mini FireWire to 6pin FireWire. Then you need a program to do the transfers. WinDV is free and has guides at the bottom of the page for it.

Once the DV is on the computer hard drive, you edit. If you have Windows Movie Maker, it works well enough. Output from it in the same DV format, then you encode to MPEG-2, author to the DVD format and burn to disc.

We have guides for these operations, to the left: 'CAPTURE, CONVERT and AUTHOR'.

I'll assume your DVD drive is USB 2.0? Then you just need to plug it into a USB port on your computer. It should come with directions.

Probably for the transfer, editing, encoding and authoring and burning, you could get a all-in-one program that may be easier to set up and use.

I'll let someone else suggest one.

But you need to do a bit of reading about the process first.

And welcome to our forums.