Using MiniDV camcorder with FC3

[Robin Laing]

Joel Jaeggli wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, Gustavo Seabra wrote:
> 
>> Alexandre Cavalcante Alencar wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> You can use Cinerella, Kino and so on.
>>>
>> Thanks for the suggestions, I'll look at those.
>>
>>> Did you alerdy investigated if you DV has a FireWare port? It's more
>>> common used for video transfer...
>>>
>> That's the funny part... I looked at the camera specs, and it actually 
>> has a USB port, which I assume it's 2.0. There's no mention of 
>> FireWire at all!
> 
> 
> which camera?
> 
> usb is generally to transfer still pictures or use the thing as a webcam.
> 

We have a USB only (Sony) video camera at work.  I tried to connect it 
using USB and FC1 but didn't get much success.  Of course I didn't 
have much time to play with it.

The issue was playing the tape and capturing the stream on the 
computer via the USB port.

We had to use a Windows computer to get the data. :(  Of course the 
Windows software would only record 10 minutes at a time.

There are cameras that are USB only.

-- 
Robin Laing