hello,

I am asking this on behalf of a friend who just bought the Sony
DCRTRV14 MiniDV digital camcorder. He wants to know if you can
transfer footage you have recorded on the tape to your PC via USB. It
seems that you can do "live streaming" from the camera to the PC i.e.
it kind of acts like a webcam but can you record some video onto tape
then transfer this later to you PC via the USB connection or must you
use some sort of "video input" connection on your PCs VGA card?

thanks for any help :-)

Gav

On 10 Jan 2004 15:50:32 -0800, (Gav) wrote:

hello,

I am asking this on behalf of a friend who just bought the Sony
DCRTRV14 MiniDV digital camcorder. He wants to know if you can
transfer footage you have recorded on the tape to your PC via USB. It
seems that you can do "live streaming" from the camera to the PC i.e.
it kind of acts like a webcam but can you record some video onto tape
then transfer this later to you PC via the USB connection or must you
use some sort of "video input" connection on your PCs VGA card?


Neither. You use firewire (aka IEEE 1394) to transfer video
footage to your PC.

If he doesn't have such a port then it is very cheap (about £15) to
buy a card to do this.

Regards,
Harry.

In article , gavin@my-
deja.com says...
hello,

I am asking this on behalf of a friend who just bought the Sony
DCRTRV14 MiniDV digital camcorder. He wants to know if you can
transfer footage you have recorded on the tape to your PC via USB. It
seems that you can do "live streaming" from the camera to the PC i.e.
it kind of acts like a webcam but can you record some video onto tape
then transfer this later to you PC via the USB connection or must you
use some sort of "video input" connection on your PCs VGA card?

You can use USB video streaming - use something like Windows Movie Maker
(free from Microsoft for Windows XP only), or the software that came
with the camera.

I've been using USB streaming for a few weeks, but now I've switched to
FireWire - bloody Hell what a difference. The quality with FireWire is
incredible when compared to the low-resolution USB. It can run to 1GB
per minute though!

I've bought my FireWire cables from http://www.ebuyer.com/ and a
FireWire card from http://www.dabs.com/

EBuyer:
http://tinyurl.com/2pd5r - 6/4 pin FireWire cable £1.51
http://tinyurl.com/2z3f2 - 4/4 pin FireWire cable £4.55

Dabs:
http://tinyurl.com/22juj - FireWire card £10.50

Price include VAT but not delivery.

SVCD quality when burnt using Nero is fantastic.

--
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http://hyweljenkins.co.uk/mfaq.php

awsome, thanks for the help guys, I shall pass this info on to the
actual ownder of the recorder. I did tell him to RTFM but apparently
it was not that clear :-)

cheers again,

Gav



Hywel Jenkins wrote in message et...
In article , gavin@my-
deja.com says...
hello,

I am asking this on behalf of a friend who just bought the Sony
DCRTRV14 MiniDV digital camcorder. He wants to know if you can
transfer footage you have recorded on the tape to your PC via USB. It
seems that you can do "live streaming" from the camera to the PC i.e.
it kind of acts like a webcam but can you record some video onto tape
then transfer this later to you PC via the USB connection or must you
use some sort of "video input" connection on your PCs VGA card?

You can use USB video streaming - use something like Windows Movie Maker
(free from Microsoft for Windows XP only), or the software that came
with the camera.

I've been using USB streaming for a few weeks, but now I've switched to
FireWire - bloody Hell what a difference. The quality with FireWire is
incredible when compared to the low-resolution USB. It can run to 1GB
per minute though!

I've bought my FireWire cables from http://www.ebuyer.com/ and a
FireWire card from http://www.dabs.com/

EBuyer:
http://tinyurl.com/2pd5r - 6/4 pin FireWire cable 1.51
http://tinyurl.com/2z3f2 - 4/4 pin FireWire cable 4.55

Dabs:
http://tinyurl.com/22juj - FireWire card 10.50

Price include VAT but not delivery.

SVCD quality when burnt using Nero is fantastic.

I've been using USB streaming for a few weeks, but now I've switched to
FireWire - bloody Hell what a difference. The quality with FireWire is
incredible when compared to the low-resolution USB. It can run to 1GB
per minute though!

I've bought my FireWire cables from http://www.ebuyer.com/ and a
FireWire card from http://www.dabs.com/

EBuyer:
http://tinyurl.com/2pd5r - 6/4 pin FireWire cable 1.51
http://tinyurl.com/2z3f2 - 4/4 pin FireWire cable 4.55

Dabs:
http://tinyurl.com/22juj - FireWire card 10.50

Price include VAT but not delivery.

SVCD quality when burnt using Nero is fantastic.

If you get the Pinnacle Studio DV Digital Pack from www.dabs.com (quicklinx
248SWS) for 50 quid then you get 1394 interface card, cable, a DV tape, 10 x
CDR's and software. Everything you need.

Phenomenal deal.

david