Comments on: Review: DXG DXG-566V HD camcorder

By: audrey

audrey — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:39:21 +0000

can you add a microphone to this camera? I really like it mostly except for the sound.

By: audrey

audrey — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:37:10 +0000

You can’t load it onto Windows movie Maker. It comes with Presto videoworks though, which is alright.

By: patterson

patterson — Sun, 31 May 2009 13:56:04 +0000

i can only get on 38seconds on 1080p, 2 min on 720p, 8min on standard. it was aired on qvc that u can get an hr on 1080p on the 2G card that they provided. how? what am i doing wrong?

quality is better than a phone cam but my bberry video mode takes clean video and better micro quaity too. this is good for kids not adults who wants crisp pic, zoom, and everything else. u get what u pay for.

By: Graham

Graham — Wed, 13 May 2009 10:06:27 +0000

I enjoy using this lightweight pocket camcorder but there is a problem when used in Standard Definition (D1) mode. The captured video is correctly displayed on the 3″ TFT LCD screen as a 4:3 ratio but elongated when downloaded for viewing on a computer. The video should play at 640×480 pixels but plays at 720×480 pixels. DXG know about this problem but have no firmware solution to date.

To correct the aspect ratio fault in D1 mode, I convert the MOV file to AVI then use VirtualDub to resize to 640×480 (4:3) and save as an XVID.

A short example can be downloaded from here:

http://www.zen21914.zen.co.uk/DXG566/sample.avi

A good camcorder in good lighting.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 01:40:13 +0000

No, Windows Movie Maker doesn’t support HD video (but for some strange reason, it gives you the option to publish your movies in HD).

Of course, you could always use some sort of converter to convert your video into a format that Movie Maker will let you import. But keep in mind that WMM doesn’t accept HD formats, so the quality will have to be reduced (to non-HD).

Try using a different video editor, such as Adobe Premiere Elements 7 (around $50 on Amazon; it accepts virtually all video formats known to mankind).

Sorry if that was any inconvenience (it was to me when I first experienced the same problem, and then found out it didn’t accept HD). But anyway, I hope that helped.

By: Melissa Wilson

Melissa Wilson — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 05:27:43 +0000

You have to use the presto video works software to convert the .MOV files the camcorder makes to MPEG files and then open the MPEG files through Windows movie maker.

A note of warning…..if the .MOV file is too large the software doesn’t seem to be able to handle converting that large of a video file and will stop responding. If the files are small enough they will convert fine.

I hope this helps.
FYI……the sound quality on your computer will be much better than the sound quality after you burn it on a DVD….at least that has been my experience.

By: Chia

Chia — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 03:24:19 +0000

yeah same here. I’m wondering same thing too?

By: Chia

Chia — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 03:23:33 +0000

Hey I was just wondering. I bought the same camera. But I don’t really like the video fix or workshop disk that came along with it. But I’m really good at using Windows Movie Maker. But when I try to put the videos in there, it says that it’s not supported. So I was wondering if you can give me any ideas on how i would be able to get the videos in Windows movie Maker! THANKS if you can or if you can’t it’s alright. Get back to me asap!

By: Malcolm Hence

Malcolm Hence — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 20:28:09 +0000

The camera is good, sound quality is terrible, lighting is ok, but for some reason I can’t load the videos I take onto Windows Movie Maker. can sombody please tell me how?

By: Tom Riley

Tom Riley — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 05:22:44 +0000

Thanks for your reveiw of this product. It was really helpful to see the example videos that you shot with the unit.

By: George

George — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 00:53:29 +0000

My Girlfriend Bought me this camera To film My Fishing shows. The Screen Seems loose But the picture quality seems good, although i haven’t watched it back on my computer yet. The Sound quality is very bad and Definitely needs a simple 40$$ Microphone. I broadcast them on youtube http://www.youtube.com/adeptanling. But I’m not positive this camera will last me the whole fishing season… jan109 – dec3109

By: Denise

Denise — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 03:22:07 +0000

Hi,

I got this for my daughter on sale. You mention the camera feature on it, did you try it and if so, how would you rate the still pictures?

Thanks!