[stadleroux]

My dad recently bought the cheapest Sony MiniDV camcorder, the HC-28, and I borrowed it a couple of times to shoot, inter alia, some footage of a 4x4 fun day. Now someone else needs the footage to burn onto a CD to show at the club social evening.

I didn't think I had a video-in port on my PC - I'm pretty sure I don't have a suitable cable to connect the camcorder directly to the PC, anyway - so I recorded the footage onto a DVD-Ram disk on my DVD recorder and copied it onto my PC's hard disk. I could now play it with the vanilla DVD playing software, but Moviemaker couldn't open it.

Then someone said I should use DVD Decrypter to decrypt it to .ISO. I've now done this, but Moviemaker still can't open the file. Also, I deliberately recorded slightly overlapping clips from the camcorder tape to the DVD-Ram disk, thinking it would make the files more manageable, but they are still appearing on the PC as one big file.

I would really appreciate some tips on what I should use to convert either the .VRO or the .ISO file to an editable format, and where I could get it, preferably as freeware. I know, that's probably asking a bit much, right?

I have several other questions about camcorders, because I'm considering getting one myself as well now, but I think I should rather start a new thread(s) for them...

[mmace]

use something like the free version of ISO Buster to extract the files from the ISO file

[jaymac]

Virtual-dub mpeg2 free you need to open in that and then export as avi (this will be dv-avi) you can actually do some editing in that. Snag wont take Iso remedy also get dvd shrink free open Iso in that save as Folder thn you can open it in virtual dub

You can also do some limited editing in shrink

[senu]

Im not sure if you have Nero. It also comes with a program called "Image Drive"
This allows you to "mount" an ISO or *.nrg ( as made by nero) as if it were a real disc. I use it regularly in various ways.

Installing it will put one or two Virtual CD/DVD drives on your system. If you then mount your image it is just as if you have a physical DVD in the drive. Any software which can import video from this will simply treat it as a regular DVD video which is editable

[stadleroux]

Thank you very much for all the help so far. I already have VirtualDub2, so I'll give that a try first.

[meansizzler]

Confused, how did you copy the dvd-ram to the pc?,

Use Ultra ISO to extra .iso file, but post a screen shot on here of the contents and I can help you make a dvd out of it..