Transfering movies off a camcorder to the computer?

Question

I have a jvc camcorder that uses a dvc tape and i want to transfer a movie i recorded onto my computer. It came with a disk of the digital photo navigator but so far it seems as if it will only import pictures and only ones found on the computer i have plugged in the camera with a usb and the computer does not seem to aknowldge it is plugged in. I want to know how to upload the movies from the tape onto the computer.

Answer 1

MiniDV tape will not transfer using USB. Your computer needs a Firewire 400 port (typically easy to add and they are cheap) and a firewire cable. Firewire400, IEEE1394a and i.Link are all the same thing.

Plug the firewire cable into the DV port on the camcorder and the firewire port on the computer and import the video.

Answer 2

See my video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lrGpwaz_...