OK, so I have some footage that is on a SonyDVD-R mini disc, that was captured on a Hitachi camera (I can't find model number - it's my Mum's). Now what I need to do is to get that footage off the disk and onto my laptop, only problem is I have no idea how to.
When I stick the disc into my computer, it can't load the disc and freezes (no restart needed to get out of this problem). I can't find any cables that link that camera straight to my computer and so I have no idea what else to do.
If it helps, I've tried importing/capturing using the editing software that I'm using which is Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 V4.00
Do you know if the disk was finalized in the cam?
That would eliminate the main source of trouble.
I've recovered files from regular DVD-R disks that were recorded on a standalone DVD recorder and were not finalized in the machine.
I don't know if mini-disks are amenable to this procedure.
Insert the disk in the drive and run ISOBuster.
Choose the track that might be video and right click on it.
Elect to extract it and opt for user data.
The result is an iso file.
Note in my pic, there were two short recordings made.
Both are megabytes, while the other files are kilobytes (track three and six are the actual video files).
The resultant .iso file can be opened in VirtualDub (if you want to output AVI files) or AviDemux if you want to save them as .mpg.
Good luck.
disk certanly isn't finalised.. most pc's will lock up solid when presented with a camcorder disk like this... It should be possible from the camera menu to finalise the disk.
Ok thanks guys, I'm doing the ISOBuster method as we speak and I'll post back with the results.
As for finalizing it, I really want to stray away from this option, as it is my Mum's camera/disks and I don't think she'd liked it if some of the disks became unusable just so that I can muck around with editing some videos XD
Just a curiosity question, how much are mini-discs these days? This camera is quite old (3-5 years max I think) in terms of technology and so I'd imagine most cameras record digitally these days so consumer demand might be low and therefore prices low for these types of disks (or even high depending on how you look at it).
OK finally it works. Thanks guys for all your help.
My Method:
D/Led ISOBuster. Imported the files off the disc which I put into the computer than I saved the files, created *.iso's. I then used those *.iso's in the other program AVIDemux which saved them as .mpg and then I used Prisim Video Converter to save them as .wmv so they worked in Premiere.
