Hi Semar,
quick answers
1. Of course if you have 1h of recorded film, you have to 'download' on the computer for the same time - as I know there are no other method (if you use MiniDV of course)
2. Delete Movie Maker.
3. There are many programs that can connect to a VideoCam as a standard device of WindowsXP: with my motherboard I got InterVideo WinDVD Suite - capable of video-editing). Other solutions - not so bad - are Magix Video, or you can even use VirtualDub (not proper 'user frendly')!
4. MiniDVDs are 'fragile' and the quality is a 'standard' (or worse...) Mpeg2. MiniDV offers surely higher quality because uses less compression. So if you want quality - unless you have a hyper-professional-camera, is still convenient to use MiniDV.
Of course these are only my personal opinion - maybe today technology offers better results!
Byez
quick answers
1. Of course if you have 1h of recorded film, you have to 'download' on the computer for the same time - as I know there are no other method (if you use MiniDV of course)
2. Delete Movie Maker.
3. There are many programs that can connect to a VideoCam as a standard device of WindowsXP: with my motherboard I got InterVideo WinDVD Suite - capable of video-editing). Other solutions - not so bad - are Magix Video, or you can even use VirtualDub (not proper 'user frendly')!
4. MiniDVDs are 'fragile' and the quality is a 'standard' (or worse...) Mpeg2. MiniDV offers surely higher quality because uses less compression. So if you want quality - unless you have a hyper-professional-camera, is still convenient to use MiniDV.
Of course these are only my personal opinion - maybe today technology offers better results!
Byez