Internal cards for full size PCs are still available as they connect to the PCI bus that has enough bandwidth to pass the signal to the processor or GPU for encoding. They needed to compress the video prior to squirting the signal into the laptop and this made them expensive. External Firewire capture cards that plug into USB ports were once available, but no longer. DV sensibly adopted IEEE1348 (Known as Firewire) and this is still compatible with Macs to this day.įirewire is poorly supported on PCs in Windows 7 onwards and this causes the digital transfer to be tricky to get working reliably - but it can be done. In HDV, more data is assigned to the black and white signal, as that gives the clarity and resolution. The difference is the amount of data dedicated to the colour and black and white information.
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Must really have been a wildly unique technology that 20 years later, our smartest minds can't figure out how to transfer it to a Windows 10 laptop at home. Is the implication that MiniDV is such an alien technology that no human on earth could possibly create some sort of adapter that transmits the data to a computer quickly and easily. There are some slightly larger tapes than the MiniDV's that I have right here, and you can literally throw them into a Faux VHS tape case which is just an *adapter* and pop it into a VCR and then transmit to your computer. How long have those been obsolete? Literally every other type of video tape tech has an adapter for it. In fact I recently converted some projector slides from 1968 to digital images.
Cassette tapes have been obsolete for far longer than MiniDV and I just used an *adapter* to transfer that to a computer and record it to audio file. Its irrelevant that the technology has been obsolete for awhile. Hope I didn't get the wrong type.Ĭlick to expand.There is no problem transferring VHS (which is far older technology) or even old cassette tapes to digital media with simple hardware anyone can get online. The one I just got on eBay is going to be a TRV8. I just did a Google images search and I am close to positive it was a Sony DCR TRV30. I can not remember as the camera broke at least 6 years ago. How can I get the video off of it and onto a new Windows 10 laptop?Ĥ) To answer your question: I am unsure if its HD quality original video.
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People in reviews claim that it should work.Ģ) What software will I need to make this work?ģ) Assuming im "wrong" about something here yet again, which I probably am, I now have a camcorder to put the tape into. Found an S-video to USB cable on Amazon and ordered it. So then I opted for the S-video approach. They even sell "4-pin firewire to USB" cables on Amazon but everyone says "Doesnt work".
I then found out that its physically impossible to transfer 1394 Firewire to today's laptops because they lack the technology to receive it. It has the standard "out" ports (1395 4 pin and S-Video). First, last night I bought a MiniDV camcorder on eBay for about $60.
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