im buying a panasonic NV-DS30 but im still unsure on how to put wat i record onto my pc so i can put it on a dvd disc. i thought the DV cable would do that.. but it says in the manual its only for still photos. am i missing something.. or is this not the right camera for me? thanx guys
Hi Dan. I have a Sony mini DV camera. It came with a usb cord. If I use Windows Movie Maker, I can put the entire tape on my pc. Try that Dan. You can choose the quality you want when you save it on your computer. You can also select the scenes you want to use to make the DVD. I hope this helps!
You can use USB or the industry standard is Firewire (IEEE 1394), if your computer has the port for it.
firewire is supposed 2 be the fastest. you can buy a pci firewire card with the firewire plug for your camera.
That Sony and USB advice is crap! You cannot *CANNOT* get high quality video over usb..the capture from a miniDV to a PC is "real time"..you can only capture in low quality in real time using USB, cuz USB cant take trough so mutch information on real time recording. Before you suggest..please try the firewire and realize what the term "high quality" means.. My suggestion dont buy a camcorder without firewire..or else you will be stucked with poor quality video..
All dv cameras have firewire don't they? Certainly Sonys ought to have, didn't they invent the iLink which is firewire?
They must have USB2 if they don't have firewire surely. There's not a lot of point in having a DV camera if you can't transfer the video to the PC (which you can't with USB1)
Non-related: AFAIK, Firewire was invented by Apple and the iLink is simply Sony's marketing division's new name for Firewire that their products use. But I find it hard to believe that there are DV cameras available, specially new, without a IEEE.1394 aka iLink aka Firewire connection.
Must be old models. All the new ones I've looked at come with Firewire ports, standard. Maybe the new DVD-R/RAM models? I haven't looked at those but it seems contradictory to have a Firewire output when you're recording to DVD anyways.
more important that pipeline size, IEEE1394 has device control. USB2 has device control and runs the same speed* as IEEE1394. everytime you say "Firewire" apple computers make $1--hence the fact USB was standard on new MBs and IEEE1394 only an option on the more expencive MBs. *I have no USB2 devices, but from what im told they are the non-apple counterpart to IEEEEEEEEEEEE1394. dan_oz: I have NVDS50, basicly same camera. it works fine for a 1ccd miniDV, how much is this DS30?, im assuming its second hand?, and going by your nic we are on the same currency. I paid 12hundred new(plaza digital, perth) 2ish years ago--the DS30 was 9hundred. I decided 300 was worth the next model up.
Malum USB2 is easily fast enough to cope with the transfer USB2 might be fast but for whatever reason it is not sufficient for real time video capture. I have tried on several machines to capture with USB2. It does not work. I had to purchase a firewire cable. Luckily my sound card has video capture capabilities, otherwise you need a capture card with firewire.
I'm trying to capture dv via firewire and I keep getting a dialogue whiich tells me the data tranfer rate of my 60 gb 7200 speed hd is not the required 4444 kb/sec. Anyone help with that? Ianto
Ianto - I had the same problem with my system even when burning CDs. If I defragged each time before capturing I was OK. I have discovered another solution as well - I set up a RAID and now I never encounter that problem. I always had the controller on the MB - just decided to use it now that HD are so cheap. JV
