Re: Using MiniDV camcorder with FC3

[Robin Laing <Robin.Laing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joel Jaeggli wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, Gustavo Seabra wrote:
>
> > Alexandre Cavalcante Alencar wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > You can use Cinerella, Kino and so on.
> > Thanks for the suggestions, I'll look at those.
> >
> > > Did you alerdy investigated if you DV has a FireWare port? It's more
> > > common used for video transfer...
> > That's the funny part... I looked at the camera specs, and it actually 
> > has a USB port, which I assume it's 2.0. There's no mention of 
> > FireWire at all!
>
>
> which camera?
>
> usb is generally to transfer still pictures or use the thing as a webcam.

We have a USB only (Sony) video camera at work.  I tried to connect it 
using USB and FC1 but didn't get much success.  Of course I didn't 
have much time to play with it.

The issue was playing the tape and capturing the stream on the 
computer via the USB port.

We had to use a Windows computer to get the data. :(  Of course the 
Windows software would only record 10 minutes at a time.

There are cameras that are USB only.

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Robin Laing