I am trying to connect my panasonic digital dvd camera to my toshiba laptop to view my videos.?

by 阿狗

When I glue the camcorder nothing comes up on the screen. I was told I need an control software. What is this and where do I hold it?

Answer by Small Dog
It would be helpful if you told us which Toshiba mainframe… and which Panasonic DVD camcorder…

Generally, you would not connect the DVD camcorder to transfer record – unless you installed the software that came with the camcorder – but that is ONLY for viewing – not for really getting the record into your computer and control. (Transferring/copying/importing record from the camcorder to the computer over a cable – USB or Firewire – is generally for hard disc drive, flash memory, miniDV and Digital8 tape camcorders, only.)

If you want to edit…

Finalize the DVD in the camcorder. How to do that will be in the camcorder’s manual. If you do not have the manual, go to the consumer support – camcorder – area at panasonic.com, seach for your camcorder and download the manual.

You will need to download and install a DVD ripper on your computer. I like HandBrake.
http://handbrake.fr/

Once the disc is finalized in the camcorder, take the disc out of the camcorder and place it in the drawer loading DVD drive in your computer. If anything automatically launches (to play the DVD), quit that application.

Launch the DVD ripper and rip the record – Windows XP (SP2) or newer (including Vista and Windows 7) comes with MovieMaker. MovieMaker like WMV files – so that is what you want the DVD ripper to save the files as…

When the ripping is complete, quit the DVD ripper and launch MovieMaker (or whatever record editor you choose to use).

Drag the ripped wmv files to the record editors “capture” area… Edit the record in the editor’s timeline…

Answer by Buck
You should be able to download it at Panasonic’s site. You need the record streaming software if you’re using USB.
Also, check to see if the mainframe has a firewire port, and use it instead of the USB port.

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My new camera.

To be able to enlarge a picture to 22×32″..is it even possible with my camera, I may have access to a more professional SLR camera..still curious if mine may maybe work

Answer by fhotoace
When photographing subjects that are destined to be printed in sizes larger that 16 x 20 inches, the process is to shoot the image in RAW at full resolution using a dSLR camera (they have sensors that are over 15 times larger than a P&S camera (telling us you have a 14 mp sensor tells us nothing about your camera, whether it is a P&S or dSLR camera, vital information)

After copying the first RAW files to the computer the RAW file is then processed taking into consideration any custom white balance and compensation for the lens brand and focal length used.

Persons processed RAW files are then saved as a 16-bit TIFF file, a file that has NO compression and that will produce the highest quality prints. As you can see, the process for printing large files has to be considered BEFORE the photo is captured, this earnings you have to pre-visualize the shot as well as plot on using your cameras highest resolution.

I just processed a RAW file to be used as a 4×6 foot poster. The resulting TIFF file is about 1.4 gb, yes gb.

Of course when making such large prints, you have to have images that are as close to perfectly exposed and perfectly sharp (NO camera or subject movement and the subject in perfect focus)

Answer by B K
14mp is pretty huge. Lets say your aspect ratio is 4:3 and image size approx 4325×3242 pixels (14.02MP) – at 300ppi that would equate to an image approx 10.8″ x 14.4″ – you may maybe probably get away with 200ppi or less since that is going to be quire a large print, and most likely no one will be viewing it really close up, in fact for posters you may maybe even get away with 150ppi.

So going by that formula you would have to resample the image to make it larger. So if you rescaled and resampled it to 6401 x 4798 at 200ppi, that will be 32.005″ x 23.990″ – you may maybe then apply a some sharpening in your image editor, and crop it down to 32″ x 20″ exactly.

I have to agree with the additional answer above: if this 14mp image is from a point and shoot, then the quality when you enlarge may maybe be reasonably terrible – that is simply down to the small sensor size of these cameras. Again shooting RAW is also a excellent thought, because if you enlarge a jpeg there is a possibility that you are going to be able to see the compression artefacts that all jpegs have.

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