Recording with a Camcorder onto your PC?

How do i record a video and upload it to YouTube with a Sony DCR-DVD610 or DCR-DVD710?

• when i get my first camcorder, i'm gonna be recording and recording and recording for so long, so i am planning on getting a Sony DCR-DVD610 Camcorder: http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10551&storeId=10151&langId=-1&productId=8198552921665286951 or a Sony DCR-DVD710 Camcorder: http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10551&storeId=10151&langId=-1&productId=8198552921665286951 so when i get the Camcorder, i just record, transfer to my PC, and upload it to YouTube? if that's not all, explain to me what else do i need to successfully upload a video i recorded on my DCR-DVD610 or 710 to YouTube? PLEASE HELP!

• Answer:

  Sony DVD cameras operate fairly easily. Once you are done filming what you need to film, all you have to do is finalize your disk (from within the menus of your camera). This allows the disk to be read in any DVD player or computer with a DVD drive. However, the files are now encoded in a DVD format, with chapters for each "file". The Sony cameras come with a program package called Picture Package. It includes DVD Viewer, which allows you to take the files from the DVD and put them onto your computer. To use the program, simply insert the DVD into your computer, open the program, select DVD as your source, click on videos, select all the files you want to copy, choose your destination (where the files will be downloaded to) and click copy. (This sounds complicated - it's very simple). Once this is done, you can either edit your files with a movie editing program such as Windows Movie Maker or iMovie or upload them directly to YouTube. Although this seems lengthy, the whole process of getting the files from the DVD to your computer takes about two minutes.