How to add videos to your computer from your camcorder

October 28, 2008 · Filed Under Internet 

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I am going to show you how to add videos to your computer from your camcorder. Now of course some things may not be the same with different equipment and I am going to let you know what equipment I used but for the most part it should work with most computers and camcorders. I was able to add the videos with both windows xp and windows vista though there are some limitations with vista you can’t use the usb with the new version of windows movie maker, you will need to use a firewire cable which is a lot better quality and faster than usb so I would recommend utilizing the firewire cable if you have a firewire port.

Windows XP or Windows Vista
Computer with firewire port (optional on windows xp)
Usb port works with Windows Xp
Firewire Cable
Windows Movie Maker

My equipment
Dell Computer with Windows Xp with Windows Movie Maker
HP Laptop with Windows Vista with Windows Movie Maker version 6.0
Sony Handycam model # DCR-HC21
4 pin to 4 pin firewire cable

Now the first problem I ran into when I first started was when I connected my Usb to the camera and computer it wasn’t recognizing the camera, this took me the longest of all my problems so far and it was of course the simplest of problems. One of course was the drivers which it took me a very long time to find because I had all kinds of problems downloading it directly from sony because I don’t have the original disk and the serial #. Well if I had that I would have no need to download the drivers from their website that made me crazy, anyways I did find the usb drivers for sony dcr-hc21. The other problem after the drivers were download was I didn’t have the camera set to usb stream on the settings this really made me feel stupid after It took me hours to find the solution on google.

Ok now that I took my share of dum dum pills we have what we need to add the videos from the camcorder to the computer with windows movie maker version 6.0.

  1. Hook up your Usb or firewire cable to both camera and computer
  2. Open windows movie maker (version 6.0) and power on camcorder
  3. Import video screen will pop up you then can name your video and input it to a specific folder you want and save the format I save it as an avi.
  4. Now you can rewind to where you want to start importing and press play on camcorder then click the start import button on windows movie maker. Click stop importing when video ends.
  5. Then click finish and it will add the video to the folder you specified and also put into the windows movie maker and we will show you how to make changes in windows movie maker.

It is that easy once you know what the heck you are doing.

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7 Responses to “How to add videos to your computer from your camcorder”

  1. The world of Video on October 29th, 2008 12:00 am

    [...] How to add videos to your computer from your camcorder. [...]

  2. no imageNihar (Who am I?) (2 comments.) on October 29th, 2008 7:47 am

    Thanks for the info…

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  3. PostOnFire.com on October 30th, 2008 2:06 am

    How to add videos to your computer from your camcorder…

    How to add videos to your computer from your camcorder using windows movie maker…

  4. no imageRichard from Video Production Company (Who am I?) (1 comments.) on November 7th, 2008 2:34 am

    After moving your videos from your camcorder to your computer, do you use any other programs for editing/video production or do you use your computer just for viewing the movies?

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  5. no imageDan_N (Who am I?) on November 7th, 2008 9:34 am

    Hey Richard, I am just getting into videos so I haven’t done much beyond turning them into mpegs on the computer.

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  6. no imageBrad (Who am I?) on December 1st, 2008 10:04 am

    Thanks for the info…

    Unfortunately, when I tried to install the drivers you provided for my Sony DCR-HC21 on my Vista Home Premium laptop, I got the following error message:

    “USB Driver cannot be installed in the current version of Windows.”

    System is still not recognizing the camera when using FireWire.

    Any other suggestions?

    Thx,
    Brad

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  7. no imageDeca (Who am I?) (3 comments.) on December 7th, 2008 5:30 pm

    BTW this is my first time here and I like this post ;)
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