If your digital camera is recording on tape, you can use Movie Maker to transfer videos to a digital file on your computer. Connect your digital camera to the PC, switch it to play, and either run Movie Maker and choose to import From digital video camera, or when the AutoPlay box appears select Windows Video Import.
The wizard will guide you through the steps of importing the files. Enter a name for the video and a location to save it, and select a format:
- Audio Video Interleaved (single file) – will save the recorded video as a single .avi file. The advantage of an AVI file is the universally support. The disadvantage is that it will take about 13 GB of space for one hour of recorded video.
- Windows Media Video (single file) – will save the recorded video as a single .wmv file. You can select this format if you want to use it with Movie Maker or with other programs that support it. The WMV format will only take about 2 GB of space for a one hour video.
- Windows Media Video (one file per scene) – will save the recorded video into multiple WMV files. The wizard will detect when the recording was started/stopped and will use this information to create scenes, which will be saved as individual files.
After you have chosen your conversion format, you can select whether to import the entire videotape or only part of it. If the first option is used, the tape will rewind to the beginning and the recording will start being transferred to your PC. You should remember that you can stop the transfer any time you want – you can tell the wizard to stop after a certain number of minutes have passed. The recording can be split into multiple clips by selecting Create Clips.
If you choose to import only certain parts of the videotape, a new window will appear, showing some camera controls that allows you to scan the tape. You can use the Previous Frame or the Next Frame buttons to make an accurate selection of the beginning of your video.
Split/Join Videos
After this procedure is finished, the preview window can be used to split or rejoin a video file. Scroll to the desired position and click on the Split button. The original file will be unchanged, so you can undo it if you got it wrong. To rejoin clips, select them and click Combine. This only works if those clips were originally split.
What type of AVI file is
What type of AVI file is created when that option is chosen? I use WinDV with XP, and I'm given the choice of AVI type I and AVI type II (iirc).
Jerdac, you cannot choose
Jerdac, you cannot choose between avi I or II...it's just avi
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