I Don't Know What To Do with my Camcorder?

Question

i want to connect my camcorder so i got this wire n it has a USB cord on one end n then a small sized USB on the other side. so i connected the small sized USB on the camcorder n the USB on my laptop. Now i want to pull up my comcorder. how do i do that. I went to My computer to open it but it wont show it up there... how do i connect my camcorder to my Laptop?

Answer 1

If you want to transfer video, you have not provided enough information.

If the camcorder uses miniDV or Digital8 tape, it uses the DV port (this is a 4-pin) and connects to the firewire port (not USB) of your computer. If you don't have a firewire port, install one. The port installed on the computer will be most likely 6-pin... but can be 4-pin. It depends what you have or decide to install. You need firewire400 (Also known as i.Link or IEEE1394a). USB will only be used for web streaming (if the camcorder has the feature) or for transferring stills.

If the camcorder is hard drive or flash memory based, it should mount using USB and appear as a USB mass storage device. If it does not, you need to install the drivers available on the CD in the box or download from Sony.

If the camcorder is DVD based, you will need to have a drawer loading DVD drive on your computer and you will rip the DVD with something like HandBrake.

If the camcorder is analog (hi8), you will need to get a Analog/Digital bridge from Pinnacle or Canopus.

If the camera is for taking stills and happens to take highly compressed videos, take the memory card out of the camera and use a card reader to transfer the videos to the computer.

Answer 2

Need ROXIO MEDIA SUITE software. Start roxio then connect and ON the camera. Connect camera ro pc via firewire. Choose make a new dvd  and click on your camcoreder for input. Control camcorder from pc. then burn dvd with themes.