Is there anyone there that would let me call them so they can talk me through working with my SR12 and AVCHD movies with the 11+?

I can't figure it out and I really, REALLY suck at understanding written instructions.

All I want to do for now is getting the movies to the computer, possibly cutting, cropping parts that I want and saving them to a format I can send to people like avi, mpeg or something that they can see on their comptuters and on TV through their DVD players.

Can anyone help?

Thanks in advance

George

I did a little reading on the SR12. Put it on the dock and connect the USB port on the dock to a USB port on your computer. There may be a menu setting on the camera where you select between having to use software that came with the camera or whether the camera will be seen by the computer as a "drive".

I would pick the latter.

When the computer sees the camera as a drive you want to copy the clips you would like to use over to Pinnacle Studio's "Captured video" folder.

(To make things simpler for me and to keep that folder from suddenly having thousands of clip files, I create a sub folder under "captured video" for each separate project).

If you follow my idea above, copy the files you want to use into that subfolder.

Then fire up Studio and in edit mode point the video album to that subfolder. At the top of the album are two button choices "files" or "scenes". Check files.

The clips should show as thumbnails and from there you simply click, drag, and drop on the timeline. Double click on any clip on the timeline and a "trim" window appears that will let you trim in and out points for that clip.

Play with the other functions and you will begin to learn the basic functions. But whenever you do anything with a clip, let it render before doing anything else. The bar above changes from green to orange when rendering is done.

Good luck.

Thanks bro.

I'll have to wait to try it out though because it also turns out that this damn proggy REQUIRES 512 megs on the video card and I don't have it on the laptop nor on my old workstation but I AM getting a new computer in a few weeks that WILL have plenty of oomph so I'll figure it out then.

Thanks a lot

George

Well, actually I only have 256MB on an ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT.

If you're getting a new machine for AVCHD editing be sure it has a Quad core processor running at 2.66Ghz as a minimum. Mine runs at 2.4Ghz and I avoid editing 1920x1080 video, settling for setting my cam for 1440x1080.

3GB of fast RAM and a separate graphics card with 512MB will help immeasurably.

The HiDef revolution is sure hitting us hard, isn't it?

I don't think that anyone can figure it out.