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I am trying to connect my panasonic digital dvd camera to my toshiba laptop to view my videos.?

When I attach the camcorder nothing comes up on the screen. I was told I need an editing software. What is this and where do I purchase it?

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1. It would be helpful if you told us which Toshiba laptop... and which Panasonic DVD camcorder...

Generally, you would not connect the DVD camcorder to transfer video - unless you installed the software that came with the camcorder - but that is ONLY for viewing - not for actually getting the video into your computer and editing. (Transferring/copying/importing video from the camcorder to the computer over a cable - USB or Firewire - is generally for hard disc drive, flash memory, miniDV and Digital8 tape camcorders, only.)

If you want to edit...

Finalize the DVD in the camcorder. How to do that will be in the camcorder's manual. If you do not have the manual, go to the consumer support - camcorder - area at panasonic.com, seach for your camcorder and download the manual.

You will need to download and install a DVD ripper on your computer. I like HandBrake.
http://handbrake.fr/

Once the disc is finalized in the camcorder, take the disc out of the camcorder and put it in the drawer loading DVD drive in your computer. If anything automatically launches (to play the DVD), quit that application.

Launch the DVD ripper and rip the video - Windows XP (SP2) or newer (including Vista and Windows 7) comes with MovieMaker. MovieMaker like WMV files - so that is what you want the DVD ripper to save the files as...

When the ripping is complete, quit the DVD ripper and launch MovieMaker (or whatever video editor you decide to use).

Drag the ripped wmv files to the video editors "capture" area... Edit the video in the editor's timeline...

2. You should be able to download it at Panasonic's site. You need the video streaming software if you're using USB.
Also, check to see if the laptop has a firewire port, and use it instead of the USB port.

3. your panasonic digital dvd camera video is .mod video.
YOu need a tool to edit and converter and transfer your .mod video.
Try 4Videosoft Mod Tod Converter.
You can find it here:
http://www.dvd-video-tool.com/mod-tod-converter.html

It can:
1: convert Mod, Tod, MPEG to other popular video and audio formats like MP4, MP4 AVC, WMV, AVI, FLV, 3GP, MP3, MP2, M4A, WMA, WAV, OGG.
2: Fast conversion speed and easy to use.
3: Powerful editing functions such as trim, crop, merge, snapshot, effect.

Just have a try and I hope it can help you.

4. You may try AVS Video Editor which has many great functions. The features in the official site are below:
1. Direct Transfer to iPod, PSP, Mobiles and Other Portable Players
2. Supports Virtually ALL Video Formats
3. Burn Movie DVDs
4. Capture and Edit Video from External Devices
5. Edit Video and Enhance Your Movies
6. Create Slide Shows
7. Make Perfect Audio for Your Video Editing Tasks
8. Scene Detection
9. Convenient Video Editing Tools and Interface

So I recommend you this tool,you can see detail and gu
ides:

Free download link: http://www.avs4you.com/AVS-Video-Editor.aspx?sct=aff&ct=regnow&cid=175028
Also, you can use Premiere which may be difficult for us:
http://www.adobe.com

I hope this may help you