How to transfer video from panasonic NV-GS85GC HANDICAM to Laptop?

Question

How to transfer video from panasonic NV-GS85GC HANDICAM to Laptop?

Answer 1

I'm going to assume that you've already installed the necessary software for your camcorder on your laptop.

First turn on your laptop. After it comes up, you need to connect your camcorder to your laptop with the provided usb cable. Make sure your tape is in the camcorder and move the function dial to "PC". On your laptop, launch your video editing software. You can use Panasonic's software or you can use Windows Movie Maker or any other that will capture video for you. Within this program, there should be a feature to "capture video". Choose that and it will start playing the tape on your camcorder while recording it to your pc in realtime. This means that if your tape is 1 hour long, it will take the pc 1 hour to record it. This is the only way to do it through a pc. Of course, you can just record bits and pieces of it to save time.