How do I transfer video from a cannon ZR200 camcorder to my computer?

Question

When I got to plug it in to the computer with a transfer cable nothing happens, the computer doesn't even recognize something is plugged into it.

Yes the computer is fine and other things work in the USB slot, but I need to know why my camcorder isn't working and how to connect it for the computer to recognize it.

Answer 1

Don't use USB. Use the DV port on the camcorder and a firewire cable. USB won't work (you already know this).

No, Canon did not include a firewire cable in the box.

Installing a firewire port on your computer is cheap and easy (if you have an available PCI slot oin the desktop or PCMCIA slot in a laptop).

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Firewire, IEEE1394 and i.Link are all the same thing. Most common firewire cable is 4-pin (camera) to 6-pin (computer).

Apple Macintosh computers have had firewire 400 ports for many years.