(OT) Windows 10 and Panasonic Videocam Suite

Took seconds to find a Windows 7/8 update using google.

Good luck!

Yes, I found that myself, but I have Windows 10 not Windows 7/8. Can't find anything relating to Windows 10 installation of VideoCam Suite 2.0. Perhaps it doesn't exist!

I'd say you'd have more than a fighting chance being successful with that on 10.

The only fly in the ointment, is if you have a 64-bit build of the OS, and for some reason (hardware driver?) there is a dependency on 32-bit. But if so, Panasonic would have mentioned it on that website as 7/8 are also afflicted by that.

Try it. The instructions given are equally relevant to 10. Seems it checks your existing CD to know you are worthy of the upgrade.

You can also run the installation programs in compatibility mode for Windows 7/8 if any weirdness happens running them straight.

Or, turn UAC off, etc...

Oddly enough I will also be looking at Pany software for Win 10. I had been running Pinnacle 15 under 8.1 for my Pany camcorder, and it won't run on 10.

I used to find the humble Windows Movie Maker more than adequate for simple "home videos" and it is depressing that that has now gone. Groove Music is a disaster on my desktop but at least you can still run Windows Media Player under 10.

I now have Mint and Ubuntu boxes, Freenas, Android on the phones and tablets, and a MacBook Pro. I'm quite tempted to try to take the "main" desktop back to 7!

What does videocam suite DO?

Friends Panasonic video cam I just plugged into a linux machine, and downloaded the videos off it.

What else do you need to do?

Video editor?

Openshit.

All platforms

a knowledgeable person in this group somewhere.

. I have a CD to install Panasonic VideoCam Suite 2.0

find anything relating to Windows 10 installation of VideoCam Suite 2.0. Pe rhaps it doesn't exist!

Afraid you've lost me there Adrian in the technical stuff! I'm 70 years old and only just managing to keep my head above water with modern technology. Anyway, I'll try the 7/8 download but it appears to be an upgrade rather t han a new installation. Anyway, as I say, I'll give it a go. Thanks for the reply.

knowledgeable person in this group somewhere.

I have a CD to install Panasonic VideoCam Suite 2.0 which worked perfectly well on my old PC running Windows XP. I have just tried to load it on my cu rrent laptop running Windows 10 but I get an error message saying it's not compatible.

Suite or can anybody recommend another piece of software available which w ill do the job.

Replying to The Natural Philosopher - I used VideoCam to download videos fr om the camcorder to the PC, which it appears to have stored as .MPG files. My laptop won't open these as it says they are not supported. Hence I'm try ing to install VideoCam on my laptop to no avail. I also used VideoCam to c reate DVD copies of my videos for passing on to family/friends. I understoo d it also contained editing facilities but I never used these.

Openshot and DVD styler are what you want for editing videos and creating DVDS respectively and VLC will play the MPGs.

All of these are high quality freeware/shareware.

In message , The Natural Philosopher writes

Perhaps I am misunderstanding, but that looks to be 64 bit only. I use W10 32 bit.

Good grief. Sorry. I didn't realise win10 even CAME in 32bit!

Who on earth makes 32 bit kit these days?

I wouldn't even start to edit videos on a 32 bit machine...

It does on this laptop

Ah. I wanted 32 bit for compatibility with Turnpike. Yes, I could have played with VM under 64 bit, but that all sounds a little scary.

Indeed :-(

Mmm. yep I know. That's why I have a 32 bit XP VM on this machine. So I can run old crap that still has legs

Install linux and then use an XP VM for turnpike :-)

In message , The Natural Philosopher writes

But then I'm back to running a VM :-(

Its not such an issue to be honest.

On my SSD booting te VM XP takes about 8 secs, and restoring from suspend about 2, and I have enough RAM to leave it up permanently.

Turnpike would almost certainly work with WINE as well.

"Although no Linux port was produced, all versions worked satisfactorily under packages such as the proprietary Win4Lin. Versions up to and including 5 also worked quite well under Wine"

sez wiki...

En el artículo , Graeme escribió:

VirtualBox is reliable, easy to use and free.

Bit of a RAM eater, but thats all. Very stable these days