Video and Movie topics

I just had some 8mm film converted to DVD.  I know nothing about this and didn't ask many questions before hand.  I think they did it on a Mac.  Anyway, the DVD plays fine and is acceptable, but I want to put ...

I asked for suggestions for a camcorder a couple of weeks ago. It will be for my son as a new baby / Christmas gift. It will be used mainly for family videos. The main exceptional criterion is probably good low ...

I want to transmit the sound separately and wirelessly. Not a problem. However, to make it interference proof the data should be buffered, which puts a time delay in the audio side of things. Obviously too much of a delay and whatever ...

Is there any way to synchronise external sound tracks to DVDs? The obvious way is to rip the DVD to HDD and overlay stuff on it. However, is there any timing signals or something I could use in the data stream so I would not have to do this? ...

My wife has a stack of PAL VHS tapes from Russia (they say PAL on them).  We live in the USA and have an NTSC TV. I believe to play them, I need a PAL VCR + and a PAL->NTSC converter. ...

The JVC GR-D73U is connected to a Windows XP Home laptop through a Firewire cable. We're trying to download movies using Windows Movie Maker. We are unable to find the manual or the CD that came with the camera. ...

I want to use my pc vga monitor to watch videos. My dvd player has every type of output: composite/component video, svideo, coax, and scart, but it is only playing cds at the moment. I live in a small apartment and have no ...

I'm doing my first editing job and need to figure how long it will take me so that I can let my client know. I heard a good rule of thumb was for every hour of footage that will lead to 10hrs of editing. ...

Group, I was wondering if anyone has shot on Double Super 8mm? I see that it is starting to make a come back and I was wondering if anyone has any thoughts they would like to share on this format? ...

I am embarking on a project to transfer about thirty 8mm camcorder tapes to DVD. I am looking for some advice as to the best method of accomplishing this task. Most of the videos will be transferred without editing, as I ...

Hi All, I have a miniDV camcoder, canon MV700i. I have some recorded movies of some ocasions. I want to transfer them to my PC, i mean convert them to mpeg or other PC compatable formats. how can I do this? what hardware and software will be required? I have ...

Hi, I have a Sony TRV460E Digital 8 camcorder and have just started playing around with transfering the recorded tapes to my PC / VCD's. The problem that I currently have is that the video that is captured to the PC is much darker than that which is played back on the camcorder ...

Well, maybe not but I was thinking about computers as display devices. I can quite understand h/w having to be standardised in TV systems eg HDTV 720p etc However, my computer display is settable to all kinds of resolutions, most ...