extricating video from mini-dv tapes (1 Viewer)

[taubstumm]

peeps. what stupid cable do i need to use get video out of a mini-dv tape (inside a sony fx1000 camera) and into a macbook? the camera seems to only have a hdmi out -- no firewire out (unless i'm missing something obvious). is there such a thing as a hdmi-to-firewire cable? or hdmi-to-usb? or something like that? stupid bleedin cameras.

thanks.

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[pete]

Sony calls FireWire iLink

 

[pete]

Top one = Mini FireWire.

 

[Goodbye]

You need this

 

[ernesto]

i bet his macbook is one of those non-firewire ones

 

[Goodbye]

perhaps... perhaps not... its like a veritable soap opera this thread

 

[taubstumm]

great, thanks for the info.

ok, i went out and bought a mini-firewire-to-firewire cable (exactly the one santino posted).

i have a macbook pro and an older white macbook here - the macbook pro doesn't have the firewire port (as ernesto was saying), but the white macbook does.

however, the only thing on the macbook that i could use to capture the video is imovie hd (imovie 6). this *should* be able to import 1080p video, but as far as i can tell, it's not 'seeing' the camera when i connect it.

i have the camera switched to playback mode (aka 'vcr' on this camera), and connected to the computer with the firewire cable, and i'm clicking this button in imovie to try to get it to connect with the camera...



...but all it's doing is switching to the built-in isight camera instead.

any ideas what i could do to get it to work?

thanks!

 

[Goodbye]

Check the input settings in imove or restart the mac withe camera attached

 

[thairock]

You can try either of these two techniques - I've had success with both when iMovie is being a bitch -(which is often)

A. Use iPhoto as opposed to iMovie to import the video - then if you want to edit it in iMovie you can just drag it into it.

B. If the dv camera shoes up as an external drive , just navigate through the folders and you will find the video files in there some where - then just drag them to your folder of preference - be it movies or whatever.

 

[taubstumm]

You can try either of these two techniques - I've had success with both when iMovie is being a bitch -(which is often)

A. Use iPhoto as opposed to iMovie to import the video - then if you want to edit it in iMovie you can just drag it into it.

B. If the dv camera shoes up as an external drive , just navigate through the folders and you will find the video files in there some where - then just drag them to your folder of preference - be it movies or whatever.

thanks for that. no dice, though, i'm afraid. i think these tricks might work if the video is being recorded to a card, but because i'm recording to mini-dv tape, it's tricky. i think. i don't know.

 

[Goodbye]

The external drive thing don't happen with tape

 

[thairock]

Doh! - of course! - that info is right there in the title - sorry.

I'm sure you have gone through the apple support pages etc (if not , I will paste that info below)

But , here is an in-elegant solution , which may help if all else fails.

If you have a dvr or access to one - with a firewire input, you could play from camera into dvr and record it - (then burn to dvd or usb - depending on the options available and import to your editing platform from that)

Sorry, it's not the best option , but might be a solution of sorts.


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Good luck!

 

[Goodbye]

Have you tried turning it off and on again*



















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