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DVD (or Video) to Digital Camera Makayama's Digital Camera Media Studio The people at Makayama, a well established software company in Amsterdam, have just finished developing a software package that will allow you to transfer a DVD or other video media to the memory card of your digital photo camera so that you can then play the movie on your camera. Here's what they say about their package:
"A world's first: watch movies, TV and video on your Digital Photo Camera ! Use your camera as portable media center. DVDs, recorded TV, downloaded films and all other video content can be watched on your Sony Cybershot or Casio Digital Camera, in great quality, in full screen. The software installs on your PC, you insert a DVD or pick a video from your harddrive and with only two clicks, you have it on your camera, ready to watch on the go. A 512 Mb memorycard is enough to store a couple episodes of a tv-series, a full length feature film, or hundred minutes of video presentations. Let your children watch their favourite TV-cartoons in the car or watch a blockbuster movie while travelling for business. Connect your camera to a TV set (with the tv-out cable that comes with the device) and your camera doubles as a super-compact DVD/video player that displays the media content on TV. This PC software converts all media (AVI, 3GP, MPEG, VOB), coming from any drive (hard disk, DVD, CD, etc) to a portable movie file, which will play on any compatible SONY or CASIO camera, from a postage stamp size memory card. This is the first and only software wordlwide that can encode the Sony MPEGMOVIEVX format. Subtitled and foreign language DVDs are also supported. Software runs on: Windows XP/2000/NT/Vista and the listed Sony Cybershot and Casio digital still camera's. A minimum of 512 Mb memorycard is needed for a full DVD." Here are the camera models supported: SONY CYBERSHOT F505, F505v, F55v, F707, F717, F77, F828, F88, FX77, H1,
H2, H5, L1, N1, P1, P10, P100, P12, P120, P150, P2, P20, P200, P30, P31,
P32, P41, P43, P5, P50, P51, P52, P7, P71, P72, P73, P8, P9, P92, P93, R1,
S30, S40, S50, S60, S600, S70, S75, S80, S85, S90, T1, T11, T3, T30, T33,
T5, T7, T9, U10, U20, U30, U40, U50, U60, V1, V3, W1, W100,W12, W17, W30,
W40, W5, W50, W7, W70 While this is the only system currently on the market, judging by Makayama's excellent record in similar software development (they have DVD to iPod and DVD to PSP packages, among others), and their reputation for good and quick support, we can confidently recommend this package to you. To buy it, click here.
To try it out first, click here. Try it
Additional Data (Procedures Overview)
On the opening Screen (see Figure 1), click DVD or Hard Drive, depending on where your source is stored, then click on Open.
Figure 1 - The Opening Screen When the next screen appears, you can leave the settings at their default value, click on the Action button, and the conversion process starts. If you're a bit more advanced, you can change titles, control picture quality (the better the quality, the more space you need on your memory card), you can select the language spoken, you can add subtitles in a variety of languages, and you can choose zoom (which lops off the black bars on the side and enlarges what's left). For a DVD, the DVD is first transferred to your hard disk before the actual conversion starts, so that's a two step process. For a file that's already on hard disk the conversion is obviously quicker. Once converted, you'll want to transfer the file to your camera's memory card. There are some options here, see Figure 2 below: You can leave things on your computer desktop, you can transfer the file to your memory card by connecting your camera to your computer, or you can transfer it directly to your memory card if you have a memory stick reader on your computer.
Figure 2 - The Transfer Process Once you've transferred your file, you can watch it on your camera. As you can see, the process can be quite simple, and relatively quick (about an hour total time). While this is the only system currently on the market, judging by Makayama's excellent record in similar software development (they have DVD to iPod and DVD to PSP packages, among others), and their reputation for good and quick support, we can confidently recommend this package to you. To buy it, click here.
To try it out first, click here. Try it
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