Can the video be transfered to PC?

[fatryan 5,000+ posts]

I was at my boys house for Xmas eve tonight and he got to open some presents. his dad got him a panasonic camcorder. my boy wanted a camcorder where you could transfer the video to a computer. and when his dad bought this 1, the guy at circuit city said it could. its a panasonic gs19. the owners manual covers 3 models of pana cams- the gs19, gs31, and gs35. and all the stuff i found about transfering video to a PC only applied to the gs35. except i found 1 part that said that video clips could be transfer to pc with a DV cable, but it didnt specify which of the 3 camcorders could do it. his gs19 DOES have a DV plugin, so im thinkin maybe it can. any1 know?

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[_DjScrew_ 5,000+ posts]

x2 on that, and nice cam!

 

[fatryan 5,000+ posts]

Of course you can transfer the video to the computer ... You can upload video via MiniUSB (should be included) or DV cable (not included) ... You also need software to be able to record the video (not included w/ that model, IIRC) ...

the USB cable wasnt included, neither was the DV. but it only talked about transfering still pictures with the USB. The only time it talked about transfering videos was with the DV cable. so should he get a DV?

 

[ToyTundra 10+ year member]

the standard way is a firewire (1394 IEEE) port on your computer and a DV port on the camcorder, linked with a cable. As for software any of the cheap software will work and be easy to use.

 

[HiAmplidude 10+ year member]

Windows Movie Maker (free) is actually surprisingly good. The auto sectioning is the best I've seen yet, with Nero a close second. Once you get the firewire cable and start the program and put the cam on playback mode, the cam will be auto-detected and you can control it from the software.

 

[imaspaceguy90 10+ year member]

x2 on that, and nice cam!

x3

 

[HiAmplidude 10+ year member]

Panasonic doesn't use firewire? that's a first. WTF

Well, same procedure then, just using USB2

 

[fatryan 5,000+ posts]

the people over at [H]ard forum are all telling me to use DV (firewire), jmac. so what the hell am i supposed to do, im so confused. they also said ill need a firewire card...whats that?

my boy just got this new HP with XP media center on it, so im assuming that got somekind of program for this situation, right? all my boy wants to do is get them on his computer and probably later burn them to a DVD. he doesnt need any crazy editing stuff or anything, just the basics.

 

[_DjScrew_ 5,000+ posts]

jmac calling ppl newbs? firewire is usb bro...just for refrence.. http://froogle.google.com/froogle_cluster?q=dv+cable&pid=1814333583359550798&oid=10829695750565968339&btnG=Search+Froogle&oi=froogler&lmode=&addr=&scoring=p&hl=en

 

[fatryan 5,000+ posts]

Get a MiniUSB cable, turn the camera to playback mode (not PC mode, that's for photo-uploading), connect the camera to the computer through a USB port, open your editing/recording software, hit play on the camera and record in the software, go do something else until it's done ...
A firewire card would be a PCI card that you can plug a firewire cable into.

ok, well whats the DV cable for then?

 

[fatryan 5,000+ posts]

Same thing

well why have both? theres gotta be a difference

 

[_DjScrew_ 5,000+ posts]

Meh ... That wouldn't even fit into my camera ...

yea.. firewire has a few different cable styles.

 

[fatryan 5,000+ posts]

ok well were about to go out and get a DV cable. hes already got a miniUSB at home from another camera. well see if this works

 

[fatryan 5,000+ posts]

ok well we went out today to get a firewire cord. we also echanged his gs19 for a gs31 (floor model) cause it has a light on it. and he actually ends up saving $20 with the rebate. we go to his house and try it. and it works. but then we run into a problem with the tape we recorded last saturday night. it now has blue lines going across it, and it sometime wont play. even when we transfer it to pc, it does the same thing. we try a new tape and it works perfectly. then after a little more time playing with it, it starts doing it to that tape too. i changed the speed and picture quality, and nothing helped. so we came to the conclusion that the camcorder is just messed up. if you guys got any ideas of what else it could be, let me know b4 we try to return it.

 

[_DjScrew_ 5,000+ posts]

i would say it is the cam.