I have a Sony DCR-TRV130E video cam and cannot transfer video to my computer. Can anyone help?

Question

I have a fire wire but no idea how to transfer the pictures or what software programs i need. The camera records on to a hi-8 tape

Thanks

Answer 1

Here is a link to your camcorder's manual:

http://esupport.sony.com/US/perl/model-d...

(the only difference between yours and the one in this manual is yours is PAL, this one is NTSC)

As a Digital 8 camcorder, it can read hi8 tapes, too. Treat this camcorder - for video transfer - like miniDV tape. Connect the DV port of the camcorder to the firewire port of your computer. If your computer does not have a firewire400 port, hopefully it has an expansion slot so you can add one.

Firewire, i.LINK, DV and IEEE1394a are all the same thing. The camcorder's DV port is a 4-pin firewire connector. The computer's firewire port depends on what is there or what you install - it could be 4-pin or 6-pin.

Connect the camcorder to AC power and connect the firewire cable to the camcorder and computer's firewire port. The camcorder should be in "VCR" mode (the power button - see where it says VCR, Off, or Camera?). Launch your video editor (Microsoft MovieMaker or Apple iMovie). The "Capture" or "Import"...

After editing, Save As highest quality for MovieMaker and use a DVD authoring application like WinDVD to burn a DVD of the project - this presumes your pc has a DVD burner... for Macintosh, save the project and click on the iDVD button in iMovie - iDVD will launch.