Information Guide for Working with Digital Camcorders
Digital camcorder check out procedure for students:
- Students can check out a digital camcorder on a first-come, first-served basis.
- Length of check out time is 3 days.
- One renewal is allowed permitting availability and/or demand. See a Circulation supervisor regarding this matter.
- Students will be charged a fine $25 per day for any late return of the digital camcorder.
- All digital camcorders have an 8 GB SD (memory card). Digital video camcorders requiring MiniDV tapes are no longer available.
- Camcorder Instructions for editing and uploading video are provided with each camcorder or available below:
Camcorder support:
Miller Center 2nd Floor Service Desk
320-308-2068
Additional information can be found at the following Web sites:
- Windows Live Movie Maker Tutorial:
http://explore.live.com/windows-live-movie-maker-import-photos-videos-using?os=other - iMovie Tutorial: http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/?sr=app#imovie
- iDVD Tutorial: http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutorials/?sr=app#idvd
Time involved:
Some steps of uploading, editing, and burning to DVDs are time consuming. Please allow between 15-60 minutes for these steps.
What is needed:
The supported computer systems are:
| Type | Operating system | Program |
| Mac | Snow Leopard |
iMovie 9 |
| Windows | Windows 7 |
Windows Live Movie Maker 2.1 |
If you are using a computer somewhere other than in the General Access labs, please check to see that you have iMovie or Windows Live Movie Maker.
| Mac | PC | ||
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“Data HD” may be used for temporary storage. Use USB/firewire external storage if you need a more permanent copy. |
Use USB external storage. | |
| SCSU Student Checkout Laptop | Use laptop harddisk for storage of project; use USB external storage if you need a more permanent copy. | Use laptop harddisk for storage of project; use USB external storage if you need a more permanent copy. |
**SCSU Filespace capacity is 500MB; this is too small for most video projects.
Web site demo for the Canon Vixia HF R100:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xcvyd2_canon-vixia-hf-r100-hd-flash-camcor_tech
Web sites for manuals:
- Canon Vixia HF R100 (copy and paste this link into your Web browser):
http://downloads.canon.com/cpr/software/video/Canon_HFR10_11_HFR100_Instruction_Manual.pdf
