Sony Digital Video Camcorder Model - TRV22E. What can you do with it? Video to tape and playback through TV In combination with a computer: –Video to.

Sony Digital Video Camcorder

Model - TRV22E

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

Video Clip ExamplesClick 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

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”

Captured still images

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)

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

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

Capture video clips onto computer – 3 of 3

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

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

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.

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.

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 it’s 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.