Hi there, I have a ton of old Hi8 tapes I need to transfer to my computer. I have a mac with Firewire 800. Can this hook up to my computer to do this?
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This camera does not have a firewire connection. It has a female S-Video out and a separate "AV" out female mini plug port. You need a special cord for the AV out, which has male mini-plug on one end and RCA male connectors on the other. One of the RCA connectors is yellow, which is the video out. There are conversion boxes available (I have one made by Sony) that take the RCA video out and convert it to a firewire signal.
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Hi Jaime, this Sony CCD-TRV68 doesn't have or support Firewire connection on your Mac PC. For you to transfer videos coming from your Hi8 tapes from this camcorder, what you need is an AV connecting cable (male mini plug to RCA). In addition, you may wanted to use this Sony DVDirect MC6 DVD Recorder (model #VRDMC6) for you to transfer on DVD first. Hope this helps. -Ely
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Hi, thanks for your interest, only Firewire port (no usb port) or you need to get something like elgato analog to digital converter if you need to connect it to your computer via USB port. Take care, Norman.
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Yes, at least mine were using Firewire. This one also has Firewire and a USB 3.0 port, while earlier models do not. That worked out great for connecting USB 3.0 to a new 5k iMac, which is faster than FW anyway; but my older ones cannot as the 5k iMac has no Firewire port.
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You can. My drive was formatted NTFS via usb and i connect to my Mac via Firewire 800 with no problems.
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I know that you can use this system to transfer footage from the old hi8 tapes. I have an old canon 8400 camcorder that uses hi8 tapes, and I have made dvds using this system. It was quick and simple and long as you have the cables for your old camcorder.
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It should - I believe that MacBook has a FW 800 port. You will need a FW 800 to 400 cable - the enclosure has 2 such ports. It also has a USB B socket, but file transfer would be slower than FireWire.
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Hi, thanks for your email, Sony DCR-TRV350 has Firewire port as well as USB port and I sold many to customer that have Mac. computer and I am certain you can.Take care, Norman.
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That's a tricky question as you are really talking about "Will my video card allow input cables from my camcorder?" The other option is whatever your camcorder records with (tape, disc, what have you) is there a way to transfer that data to the PC/MAC. Will it burn in HD? Yes absolutely. To a DVD? Not truly. You would need to have a blank BLURAY disc to get the real HD quality I think you might be looking for. The real trick is getting it off your camcorder. :) Hope this helps and if wanting some idea's try this string in Google "move video from camcorder to computer" without the quotes of course. :) Best of luck! That's a tricky question as you are really talking about "Will my video card allow input cables from my camcorder?" The other option is whatever your camcorder records with (tape, disc, what have you) is there a way to transfer that data to the PC/MAC. Will it burn in HD? Yes absolutely. To a DVD? Not truly. You would need to have a blank BLURAY disc to get the real HD quality I think you might be looking for. The real trick is getting it off your camcorder. :) Hope this helps and if wanting some idea's try this string in Google "move video from camcorder to computer"... » Read More That's a tricky question as you are really talking about "Will my video card allow input cables from my camcorder?" The other option is whatever your camcorder records with (tape, disc, what have you) is there a way to transfer that data to the PC/MAC. Will it burn in HD? Yes absolutely. To a DVD? Not truly. You would need to have a blank BLURAY disc to get the real HD quality I think you might be looking for. The real trick is getting it off your camcorder. :) Hope this helps and if wanting some idea's try this string in Google "move video from camcorder to computer" without the quotes of course. :) Best of luck! « Show Less
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Yes, you will need firewire though. Also to upload footage, you will need something like Sony Vegas Pro or Movie Studio, Adobe Premier, Adobe After Affects, Or Final Cut Pro. On the menue on vegas where it says file, click on that, then click on capture video .Sometime you will have to recapture footage, because the capturers glitch. Good luck!
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It worked great to connect and transfer video from my Sony 8mm Camcorder to my iMac. Should not be an issue with the Panasonic as it supports Firewire and I understand that the interface works great on the Panasonic. You will use iMovie to import the video clips/files.
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You'll need an analog-to-digital converter, which opens a whole can of worms. You can get something as simple as a XLR to USB cable adapter to a high-definition FireWire, Thunderbolt, or USB 16 channel converter. For a beginner, I'd recommend a two channel A/D converter which includes free recording/editing software, of which there are many. A little bit of further research should yield a number of great options by companies like Avid, Presonus, Focusrite, M-Audio, etc.... Good luck!
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I just have mine hooked to my Mac through firewire so, I don't know for sure but, it should work.
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Yes, I bought this Tripp Lite FireWire and plugged it into my SonyHandycam and it worked great. On your Macbook air, you will need to run the older version of iMovie 9.0.0 which shows up easily when you type iMovie into the search box on your Macbook. iMovie HD (the newer version) does not support this transfer process. Then use iDVD to burn the DVDs by selecting Share/iDVD from the iMovie 9.0.9 drop down menu
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I am not Mac-Oriented... I believe that you can use USB2 interface and firewire on a Mac but the disk format that Mac's use, is different from PC hard drive formats. Your External Disk might require reformatting. There is a software solution available that will permit a PC to read Mac formatted drives via USB.
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how did work out? I am travelling and I have been trying to download video but with no luck on my laptop(mac G4). I tried the 4 pin to the usb, 4 pin to the 6 Firewire, and a couple other connectors.
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I cannot help: I had a different camcorder and Windows 7. I transferred about 100 tapes with no problems, completed the work about a year ago, and since then use this port only for one old backup external hard drive that need Firewire port.
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I don't know what firewire I need to transfer files---2006 imac mac OS X--10.6.8 and newer 2013 imac 10.10.1------so are both 800 compatiable or is the older a 400 firewire and the newer 800 firewire. Or is there a cable that will take care of both of them?