On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 12:32 -0600, J. K. Cliburn wrote: > If your dvd camcorder uses mini-dvds, have you gone about combining > video footage from multiple mini-dvds onto a single full-size dvd? I've not done that, but I have pulled the VOBs off (or parts of them via dvd:rip) to then edit together to make my own videos. > I've > recently been successful, but it's a rather kludgy process and I'm > wondering if there's a better/easier way. I'd be curious what the process is but I've not mastered any dvds myself. > Are you able to mount your dvd-cam directly with FC4 and extract images > prior to finalizing the dvd in the camera? I can mount the camera, but > I've not yet been able to get at the unfinalized images on the camera's dvd. No, I can't mount the camera via USB at all (at least when I tried over a year and a half ago). If I really want to grab something before the disk is finalized, I have to use the proprietary (and really crappy) program on that other OS to do it. Thus, I usually wait till a DVD is full so I can just mount it in linux before Ido any work with any of the videos. > I use a Sony DCR-DVD403. Neither gphoto2 nor digikam have built-in > support for it yet. I have the DVD201. Are there plans to support these camcorders at all? If I had it to do all over again, I wouldn't get a camcorder that uses mini-DVDs and would stick to something that records in DV and can be accessed via firewire. A friend has one and it's much more flexible (and you end up with much higher quality video). Chris
