I bought a mini dvd camcorder about a year ago, because I believed it would be super easy to use.
Well, it is easy to use. But once I record what I want, I can only see it if I watch it on my camcorder! I can’t get any computer I use to recognize the mini dvd. Can anyone help?
Is there an option to ‘finalise’ the discs? If so, that is probably what you need.
Thank you for responding, Mangetout! I don’t know if there is an option for that, because I am not with said camcorder right now, and don’t remember. But thanks for answering because everyone else I have discussed this with has just said to me, “Why did you get *that?? * Everyone knows not to get mini dvd camcorders!” And then they don’t explain why it is wrong.
You should also be able to watch it on your TV by plugging an A/V lead from your camcorder to the TV input.
Yes, ‘finalizing’ does things like set up a menu structure, establish the duration of video segments for seeking purposes, and add chapter points and other information that DVD players need to find their way around a disc. Even the simplest disc, one that you just pop in and hit play on, has such information. Raw video is otherwise just be encoded and spilled onto the disc in a continuous stream, and without navigation info, you’d have to play from the start just like tape. I’m not certain whether you could even fast-forward.
I think the OP means the smaller 8-cm recordable DVDs, not DVD video recorded on a CD.
I feel bad bumping this back to the front page when I have already decided to just go and get a regular camcorder, but I had to say thanks for the other responses. I had to! My daddy raised me right!