Handycam Newbie

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"Eliza" wrote ...
> I just got a Sony MiniDV Handycam and have a simple question.
>
> I took a couple of short movies and plugged the camcorder into the
> computer and was able to import the items from the MiniDV tape into
> iMovie. It played the tape and downloaded in real time.
>
> Might there be a quicker way to download the content from the MiniDV to
> the computer? If I take one hour of movies, does it take an hour to
> download to it the computer? I think there should be a faster way, but
> as I am a total newbie at this, I do not know.

Some special equipment used by news crews can transfer
at 4x, but the rest of us are stuck with real-time. You don't
want to know how expensive it is.

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Richard Crowley wrote:

> "Eliza" wrote ...
>
>>I just got a Sony MiniDV Handycam and have a simple question.
>>
>>I took a couple of short movies and plugged the camcorder into the
>>computer and was able to import the items from the MiniDV tape into
>>iMovie. It played the tape and downloaded in real time.
>>
>>Might there be a quicker way to download the content from the MiniDV to
>>the computer? If I take one hour of movies, does it take an hour to
>>download to it the computer? I think there should be a faster way, but
>>as I am a total newbie at this, I do not know.
>
>
> Some special equipment used by news crews can transfer
> at 4x, but the rest of us are stuck with real-time. You don't
> want to know how expensive it is.

lol. Okay. First camcorder and was just wondering! Thanks.