I Have A Panasonic Nv-gs11

[daleyboy]

I own a Panasonic nv-gs11, and have done for awhile now, unfortunately it didnt come with any softwae that i can use to edit the movies i have made. It cam with some softwae that can be used to save the pictures it can take, but no video editing. Does anyone know of any free software that i can use to edit these movies? i have all the usb leads for my pc but no software. I need something basic as well, as video editing is new to me, i have always been a 35mm or digi man, and would love to spend some time playing with my cam heres a pic of camera if thats any help

[astral]

My Panasonic came with MotionDV Studio but I have not used it very much yet.

[daleyboy]

My Panasonic came with MotionDV Studio but I have not used it very much yet.

Yeah mine came with dv studio3 but it is rubbish. You cna only edit phots on there, so either i am being thick and missing something, or you will needd to obtan furhter software to edit movies.

[Guest endure]

According to Panasonic not all versions of MotionStudio can capture through the USB port. The standard way of getting movies out of a DV recorder is through a Firewire (IEEE1394) port. You can buy a card to stick in your PC that will do the job.

http://panasonic.co.jp/pavc/global/cs/soft...tionDV_faq.html

[daleyboy]

According to Panasonic not all versions of MotionStudio can capture through the USB port. The standard way of getting movies out of a DV recorder is through a Firewire (IEEE1394) port. You can buy a card to stick in your PC that will do the job.

http://panasonic.co.jp/pavc/global/cs/soft...tionDV_faq.html

Sweet thanks for that mate.

Firewire cards are only like £10 as well which makes it even better. Any reccommendations on which card i would need?

[hughden]

Sony Vegas includes a video capture utility which uses the USB connection. Nice software for editing your movies too!

[rcm]

Hi,

Ulead Video Studio 9 or Cyberlink Power Director (they have a couple of newer Software now too) is nice Software to work with, unfortunately it is not free.

But you might look into Pantip and find a 150 Baht Version there, if this is what you want (i don't ).

rcm

[Tywais]

According to Panasonic not all versions of MotionStudio can capture through the USB port. The standard way of getting movies out of a DV recorder is through a Firewire (IEEE1394) port. You can buy a card to stick in your PC that will do the job.

http://panasonic.co.jp/pavc/global/cs/soft...tionDV_faq.html

Sweet thanks for that mate.

Firewire cards are only like £10 as well which makes it even better. Any reccommendations on which card i would need?

I have the NV-GS35 and just bought a firewire card (ATEN) and cable. Transfer rate via firewire is quite a bit faster also. As for free editing software, free is just a state of mind. About the top of the line would be Pinnacle Studio but need a lot of computing horsepower to run it. It also will read your MiniDV directly via firewire without having to use MotionStudio to do the transfer. Another is Ulead VideoStudio, less computer intensive but still allows editing clips, dubbing audio, etc.

A couple of links for free editors:

http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Search/video_editor.html

http://desktopvideo.about.com/od/softwarer...l/bl_freesw.htm

http://www.zs4.net/

[Guest endure]

According to Panasonic not all versions of MotionStudio can capture through the USB port. The standard way of getting movies out of a DV recorder is through a Firewire (IEEE1394) port. You can buy a card to stick in your PC that will do the job.

http://panasonic.co.jp/pavc/global/cs/soft...tionDV_faq.html

Sweet thanks for that mate.

Firewire cards are only like £10 as well which makes it even better. Any reccommendations on which card i would need?

I don't think there's all that much difference between them.

Sony Vegas includes a video capture utility which uses the USB connection. Nice software for editing your movies too!

I think you have to be a bit careful with DV USB connections. My friend has a Sony DV camera with USB and Firewire. If you use the USB to move video from the camera to a PC you don't get any sound, just video

As far as edting is concerned (don't laugh) Microsoft Moviemaker 2 (available as a download if you have XP with SP2 installed) is supposed to be quite good for newbies.

(Doesn't the way that the latest version of the BB software concatenates separate posts into one just p*ss you off? )

Edited March 11, 2006 by endure

[Tywais]

I think you have to be a bit careful with DV USB connections. My friend has a Sony DV camera with USB and Firewire. If you use the USB to move video from the camera to a PC you don't get any sound, just video

That's funny because a friend of mine, also a Sony DV camera, had the same problem. Ended up to be a choice you had to select in an obscure area of the software.

[Guest endure]

I think you have to be a bit careful with DV USB connections. My friend has a Sony DV camera with USB and Firewire. If you use the USB to move video from the camera to a PC you don't get any sound, just video

That's funny because a friend of mine, also a Sony DV camera, had the same problem. Ended up to be a choice you had to select in an obscure area of the software.

Must have been a later/more expensive model. The manual for my friend's specifically said that USB was video only.

[astral]

This thread in the computer section may help you.

[daleyboy]

This thread in the computer section may help you.

Cool thanks for that mate, i will check it now