I just bought a Hitachi DVD/HDD camcorder?

Question

But I lost the program, Imagemixer, that came with it. Now I need to upload my computer, but no program I've found supports it. Anyone know a program that will let me upload from the camcorders hard drive to my computer in a readable movie format?

Answer 1

http://digitalcameras.fateback.com/Camco...

Answer 2

Since we don't know what computer you have, that is a bit of a challenge to answer your question.

We do now that your camcorder is DVD based. Many computers have optical drives - but they play only CDs - not DVDs.

If you cannot play DVDs in your computer, this *might* be the reason why. If your computer does have a DVD drive (they also play CDs), you need to finalize the disc (the instructions for doing that in the camcorder will be in the camcorder manual.

There may be some sort of file corruption on the DVD from the camcorder. So - if you have a DVD drive on your computer AND you have finalized the disc, you will need to use ISOBuster to get to the DVD files. If you want to edit the files, you will need HandBrake.

You have discovered one of the many reasons that DVD drives were a good idea implemented very poorly by the manufacturers. If you have the opportunity, return the DVD based camcorder for a refund and get either a miniDV tape or hard drive based camcorder - You won't have these problems and the video quality will be much better. DVD based camcorders have the worst possible video quality... and if you want to rip the DVD (using something like HandBrake) to get the video so you can edit or upload to YouTube or something like that, the video quality will get even worse...

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You "just bought it and already lost the CD" that was in the box? You need to find it. Then you won't have a problem.

My regular recommendation for anyone who buys any camcorder with a DVD strage method is to return it for a full refund and get a miniDV tape based camcorder.

Since you "just got it" have you tried contacting HITACHI?

http://www.hitachi.com/GlobalSupport/Con...