Recording panasonic camcorder dv onto laptop?

Question

how do i get my panasonic dv camacorder to play and record on my laptop,there was no cd or instruction.thanks,nv-gs60eb.please help

Answer 1

Assuming you have a MiniDV camera (small tapes), film onto the tape, then rewind it, turn it off (extremely important), hook up a capture cable (DV to Firewire 400) to your camera and to your computer. It has to be Firewire; if your computer does not have a Firewire port you will need to buy a card. Macs have them by default. The cards are really cheap to buy and easy to install. Once the hardware hookup is done, you can turn the camera on, open your favourite editing program (you can use Windows Movie Maker or iMovie) and find the capturing function (usually File -> Capture). If you need additional help with this step, the program's help section can greatly help you (the shortcut is F1 on Windows.) Once the capturing is started, the tape will play and record what is playing onto your computer. If your tape is an hour long, it will take an hour to capture.

    Once one of the above methods is done, you can edit your movie however you want it!