Sony Digital
Posted on Thursday, September 16, 2010 in Photography
How do you take videos off of a video camera and put them on the computer? I am using a Sony Digital 8 camera.?
I really want to take the videos off of my video camera and put them on the computer for editing. But even though I have the chord and everything, when I plug in the camera, it does not appear on the computer screen. What do I need to do?
(again, I am using a Sony Digital 8 Video Camera)
Thanks!
I plugged my video camera into the computer and went into "Windows Movie Maker", but when I plugged it in, the camera showed no signs of being plugged in and the software didn't recognize it.
Digital8 and miniDV tape based camcorders write digital video information to the tape.
Just connect the camcorder's DV port to the computer's firewire port. USB will not work. USB-to-firewire cable/hub/adapter/converter things will not work. If your computer has no firewire port, hopefully it has an available expansion slot so you can add one. When corrently connected, with the camcorder in Play mode, your video editor will import high quality DV-format video.
Firewire, DV, I.LINK and IEEE1394 are all the same thing... USB is generally used only for transferring stills from the memory card.
If you are unwilling or unable to add a firewire port to your computer, then the analog method is required: You will need to get a capture card or "analog/digital converter" - Pinnacale (Dazzle) and Roxio (among MANY others) make them with USB connectivity.
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