Sony Digital Video Camcorder

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Sony Digital Video Camcorder

• Model - TRV22E

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What can you do with it?

• Video to tape and playback through TV
• In combination with a computer
• Video to tape, capture clips on computer and save
  to CD-ROM (up to 650 mb approx 20 minutes) or
  to DVD (up to 4.2gb approx 120 minutes)
• Create a movie by joining together two or more
  video clips and copy to CD or DVD
• Video to memory stick (128mb 5 minutes),
  download to computer and copy to CD-ROM
• Capture photos to memory stick and download to
  computer as JPG images

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Video Clip Examples
Click to start playing the video. To pause a
clip, click again
Simple Clip Feed Me
Clips with sound overlay in an autoshape
Combined Clips Oil change
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Cheating making still images move

• Use a set of images all the same size
• Video 320 x 240
• Memory stick 640 x480
• Insert pictures
• Click Slide Show, Custom Animation
• Click the first image and Add Effect, Entrance,
  Appear
• Repeat for all subsequent images but make them
  appear after previous

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Captured still images
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Video and playback through TV

• Ensure tape is in camcorder (see operating
  instructions booklet Page 12-2)
• Check battery power is sufficient for recording
  (Page 29) - if not, use AC power (Page 12-1)
• Record onto tape (Page 13-3)
• View recording on LCD screen (Page 13-4)
• View recording on TV (Page 61)

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Capture video clips onto computer 1 of 3

• Set camcorder to VCR and locate start of video
  clip (Page 13-4)
• On laptop click Start All Programs, Pixela,
  Image Mixer Version 1.5 for Sony
• Click the capture environment icon

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Capture video clips onto computer 2 of 3

• In Image mixer software, click the USB icon
• Connect the USB lead to camcorder and computer
  (page 218-11)
• On the computer - click the USB icon if it is not
  already highlighted
• On the camcorder LCD, use the play control to
  start the video
• If necessary, adjust the Brightness of the video
  using the slider below the video window
• To start capturing video, click the red button on
  the image mixer software
• To stop capturing, press the red button again (it
  will be black while recording)
• To stop the video running, press the stop button
  on the camcorder LCD

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Capture video clips onto computer 3 of 3

• The captured video will be displayed as a
  thumbnail on the right of the screen

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Edit the captured clip 1 of 2

• Click the Movie button in Image mixer
• Drag the captured clip down to the Storyboard
  strip (bottom of the screen)
• Double-click the clip on the storyboard it
  should open in an editing window

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Edit the captured clip 2 of 2

• To trim the beginning and end of the clip
• Click the Play button
• To define the point at which you want the movie
  to begin playing, click the In-point button.
• To define the point at which you want the movie
  to stop playing click the Out-point button.
• Preview the edited scene by clicking the Trimmed
  range preview button.
• Click the OK button to accept the defined range.

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Exporting the edited clip

• Click the button near the top right of the
  screen to generate an MPEG movie
• You will be prompted for a file name and location
  - the time to encode will depend on the length of
  the clip
• If further editing will be required you should
  save the project before exiting the Image Mixer
  software.

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Inserting video clips into PowerPoint

• Load PowerPoint and start a new slide
• From the menu, click Insert, Movies and Sounds,
  Movie from File.
• Select the video clip from wherever its stored
  and click OK
• Choose the preferred playing option - when slide
  starts or on mouse click and click OK
• The first frame of the video will display and can
  be moved by dragging across the screen with the
  left mouse button
• A border can be drawn using AutoShapes and Sent
  to the back using the Draw, Order menu at the
  bottom left of the screen.