Capturing mini DV video tutorial
This video shows you how to capture video from a mini DV camcorder. My particular camcorder is a Sony DCR-HC62 but the process is pretty similar between different mini DV camcorders. First you need a firewire cable (IEEE 1394 or i.LINK). My camera didnt come with one, it comes with a USB cable which is just for photos. You can get them from Best Buy, etc, but I recommend getting one online. Best Buy charges around , but on Amazon you can get them for as cheap as {video_description}.65 plus shipping. You need a 4-pin to 6-pin male to male firewire cable (4 pin side for cam, 6 for PC). You plug the cable into the computers firewire port. If you dont have a firewire port in your computer, you can buy a firewire card and install it. You can get them for anywhere from to or so. Next, turn the camera on and set it to playback mode. You need some kind of video editing software to capture your video. I use Sony Vegas 6.0 but theres also Pinnacle, Nero, Adobe Premier, Ulead, and some others. Youtube recommends using H.264 or MPG2 encoding for uploads to youtube. Vegas 6.0 is a bit old and doesnt compress in H.264 and you need an extra license to use MPG2 which I dont have. So I use WMV 3MBPS and it looks pretty good. Render your video and upload it to youtube.
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it doesn’t detect it right now. and it usually detects it… please help me
will a small adapter with firewire to usb work as good or a cable with firewire to usb?
will this work if you use a firewire to usb cable?
Thanks for yuo nice info
65 cents????
Thank you, very nice tutorial.
my computer has the same connection as the camcorder, if i got a cable would i be able to do the same?
NOTE!! You also need a FireWire PORT on your computer to capture. Check before you go out and buy anything.
I have a question. I have a canon hv40 and adobe premiere cs4 on my computer. When I hook up the cam to my computer with the firewire it recognizes it and starts up adobe. I go to capture video and the screen comes up, but for some reason it only plays back on my camcorder and not on my computer screen. Then when I press record to actually transfer it, it reads that its recording, but actually doesn’t after I press stop. It says record error after. Could you help me with my inquire?
i have a dell studio one and it doesnt have a port for it does anybody know what the right chip would work?
so I bought that exact firewire card, and yes, it works fine, the one I got comes with the cable and all for about $7 US. It also comes with video studio 8 (ulead)
do you plug firewires in Dv inputs on the cmaera
Yes, the firewire port on my camera says “DV” on it.
Ok thank u
is there something wrong with my laptop , when i connect my ipod touch or any thing that has to do with usb , it never recognizes the usb thing i plugged in , i always have to restart my computer in order for it to be recognized!!! why?
does windows moviemaker supports video capturing
yes, buut i would highly recommend not using it. Try virtual dub, its free
so getting a mini dv camera is not a demonic thing to do.. ! Im going for this.!
canon hv30
@plavins1 yes
Thank you so much, this is very helpful video.
Thank you for sharing it with us:) was totally confused by the manual: P five stars 4 you *****
great video = well done
hey man i have a problem. when i am trying to plug in the firewire cable into pc firewire port it just doesn’t respond anything… what can i do? please help i have the fireware port on front panel of my pc. i am plugin it in and there is no respond.. any ideas?
OK First open Movie Maker, already deafult program for XP and Vista, and click on “Capture Video from Camcorder” or something like that on the left and the window should pop up! Hope it helped! Tell me if it worked!
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I ned Help! I have a sony 105 i think camera and i brought it to a shop and they didn’t have a firewire for it. Now i have a side one that might work but i have a minidv and my computer won’t run the disk? It came with Nero but again nothing seems to work o all of my videos are trapped on minidv’s can you help me?
@TheGreatFlyer man that works only with usb port and the quality is not the best… firewire doesn even respond. at anything…