Sony DCR-PC4E digital camcorder....single shots to hard dr..

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"Al Zheimer" <al@nowhere.com> wrote in
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> I have had my Sony camcorder for a couple of years now and have
> used Pinnacle 8 successfully to copy a movie to the hard drive and
> burn it to a DVD
> Decided to try it out on single shots using the single shot button
> on the camera (no sony stick)...problem is.......how do I copy the
> single shot pics to the hard drive?
> Please help if you can.
> Thanks

The single shots on my Sony camcorder are stored as about six seconds
of repetitions of one frame, just as though you had taken a 6-second
video of a still picture. So you would just capture it the way you
capture any video.

Unless your camcorder is different, of course...

Do you have a manual for the 'corder?

HTH,
Gino

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>
> The single shots on my Sony camcorder are stored as about six seconds
> of repetitions of one frame, just as though you had taken a 6-second
> video of a still picture. So you would just capture it the way you
> capture any video.
>
> Unless your camcorder is different, of course...
>
> Do you have a manual for the 'corder?
>
> HTH,
> Gino
>
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> Gene E. Bloch (Gino) phone 650.966.8481
> Call me letters find me at domain blochg whose dot is com
>

Thanks for reply Gino....yess I have the manual but it not helpful.
I have just found out that I need Pixela Image Mixer to get the single shots
on to my hard drive. This program is on a CD which is provided with the cam
corder.
Unfortunately I have lost the CD so looking for this program called Pixela
Image Mixer
I am hoping somebody can email it to me if I give my real email address.
Thanks
Tom

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"Al Zheimer" <al@nowhere.com> wrote in
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>>
>> The single shots on my Sony camcorder are stored as about six
>> seconds of repetitions of one frame, just as though you had taken
>> a 6-second video of a still picture. So you would just capture it
>> the way you capture any video.
>>
>> Unless your camcorder is different, of course...
>>
>> Do you have a manual for the 'corder?
>>
>> HTH,
>> Gino
>>
>> --
>> Gene E. Bloch (Gino) phone 650.966.8481
>> Call me letters find me at domain blochg whose dot is com
>>
>
> Thanks for reply Gino....yess I have the manual but it not
> helpful. I have just found out that I need Pixela Image Mixer to
> get the single shots on to my hard drive. This program is on a CD
> which is provided with the cam corder.
> Unfortunately I have lost the CD so looking for this program
> called Pixela Image Mixer
> I am hoping somebody can email it to me if I give my real email
> address. Thanks
> Tom
>
>
>
>

I'm guessing that if you can't find that S/W, there may be other
programs that'll do it. Google, and with luck you'll find a free one
:-)

Also, if I'm right about the format of the non-memory-card stills,
if you capture the tape footage in the usual AVI fashion, your
current editing S/W may provide a way to capture a still frame from
the AVI file. Hopefully it would then let you save it as a jpg or
whatever...A quick look at the Pinnacle Studio 7 manual says that it
will save such a capture still image as bmp (it just happened to be
the first printed manual I could find at this moment; I don't even
have any Pinnacle S/W on my computer any more!).

I guess the Pixela S/W might do it in a more convenient fashion, but
tre other should work OK.

Good luck.

--
Gene E. Bloch (Gino) phone 650.966.8481
Call me letters find me at domain blochg whose dot is com

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>
> I'm guessing that if you can't find that S/W, there may be other
> programs that'll do it. Google, and with luck you'll find a free one
> :-)
>
> Also, if I'm right about the format of the non-memory-card stills,
> if you capture the tape footage in the usual AVI fashion, your
> current editing S/W may provide a way to capture a still frame from
> the AVI file. Hopefully it would then let you save it as a jpg or
> whatever...A quick look at the Pinnacle Studio 7 manual says that it
> will save such a capture still image as bmp (it just happened to be
> the first printed manual I could find at this moment; I don't even
> have any Pinnacle S/W on my computer any more!).
>
> I guess the Pixela S/W might do it in a more convenient fashion, but
> tre other should work OK.
>
> Good luck.
>
> --
> Gene E. Bloch (Gino) phone 650.966.8481
> Call me letters find me at domain blochg whose dot is com
>
OK Gene ...again many thanks for your reply..I have found Pixela using
Edonkey (it is 200 meg) and now have it installed!
Thanks again for your help
best regards
Tom

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"Al Zheimer" <al@nowhere.com> wrote in
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> OK Gene ...again many thanks for your reply..I have found Pixela
> using Edonkey (it is 200 meg) and now have it installed!
> Thanks again for your help
> best regards
> Tom

I hope you finally upgraded from your legacy 1200 baud modem :-)

Glad you got it going,
Gino

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