Sony Mini
Sony Mini
Suggest a software for transfering videos from sony mini dv handycam to a laptop?
To which laptop?
MiniDV camcorders allow computers to import high quality DV format video by connecting the camcorder's DV port to the computer's firewire port using a firewire cable. USB won't work. In the extremely remote event you can get USB streaming working, the video will be very compressed and not high quality DV.
If your laptop does not have a firewire port, hopefully it has an available expansion slot (PCMCIA or ExpressCard) so you can add one. If you cannot add a foirewire port to your computer and you cannot use a computer that has a working firewire port, your other option is to import analog video through a "capture card" or analog-digital converter like those from Pinnacle (Dazzle).
In the Windows XP (SP2) or newer, including Vista, MovieMaker is bundled. It can deal with importing video from a miniDV tape based camcorder over firewire. Sometimes it burps - WinDV has worked where MovieMaker could not. No version of MovieMaker can handle HDV format video. Sony Vegas and Adobe Premiere always float to the top for HDV format video editing.
For Apple Macintosh OS 9.2 or newer (including OSX), iMovie is bundled. The new MacBooks and MacBook Air have no firewire port and there's no expansion slot to add one. ALL other Macs made in the last 10+ years have a firewire port. iMovieHD 05 was the first version to handle HDV. The current version is iMovie '09.
In this context, Firewire, IEEE1394, DV and i.LINK are all the same thing.
Which Sony Handycam?
Handycam is Sony's brand name for ALL their consumer camcorders. In the miniDV tape environment, this includes camcorders that capture standard definition only (the DCR-HC series) and high definition (HDR-HC series).
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