How To Transfer Camcorder Videos to Computer | Camcorder Cassettes to Digital | Camcorder Chronicles
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- Опубликовано: 27 июл 2024
- It's been a year since my last long-form RUclips post, and I thought I'd start off simple with a tutorial on how I transfer my camcorder footage to my computer. I have a tutorial on how to digitize camcorder tapes from a few years back for my Hi8 camcorder footage, but since I've been using my Sony Handycam MiniDv Camcorder (DCR-TRV6) more often, I wanted to do a more concise, step-by-step video on how I transfer MiniDV to computer. Technically, MiniDV is already digital (Digital Video), so it's not really digitizing the format, but this process should also work similar for analog formats such as VHS and Hi8 as well.
0:00 How to Transfer Camcorder Videos to Computer
1:42 What You'll Need
3:33 Tutorial
7:00 Camcorder Footage
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I searched the tube hoping to find my issue and you came through. I really appreciate you!
I'm going to lie I don't even have a camera but it's fun to know a little about everything :3
You never know when you might need the info :)
@@AudrieStorme I'm telling you, the day I have my own camera I will watch your video thousands of times like I have done now hahah :) Greeting from Argentina
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In this turorial a mini DV camcorder is used. Since the mini DV is a digital cassette, using the a/v analogue output as shown worsens the overall capture quality. The best way to preserve it is by using the DV in/out shown at 2:56. That output is available on every old digital video cameras and it's also known as IEEE1394 or FireWire . Unfortunately only Mac and some PCs have a thunderbolt port ( not to be confused with USB) retro-compatible with the old FireWire/ IEEE1394 port.
Some online stores offer fake usb / FireWire adapters but they don't work because usb and FireWire are different standards and never compatible.
Exactly what I was thinking. Firewire card for a PC is ~$20. If you have a DV recorder like the one used in this video, you can also use it as an input device to get digital files off an analog device like a Hi8....but I'll admit that I use an I-O Data capture device when importing analog video from my Hi8 on to my PC.
Yeah, I was just thinking this. By using the composite (Yellow cable with Red and White audio), you're converting a digital signal to analog and then back to digital again. Using the FireWire method yields the best quality, but it's cumbersome if you don't have the right PC/Mac with PCIe or Thunderbolt capabilities.
Yes, correct! But I have several different camcorders and just wanted to show this method since it also works for Hi8 and VHS
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I have come to the same realization after using this specific capture card method after my Windows Vista computer died before I could convert all my tapes.
When watched on a computer with this method, text in the footage is blurry and unreadable so this is simply not a good route to go for capturing memories on MiniDV.
Now I'm left wondering if those video to microsd devices are good enough or should I invest in an old laptop with FireWire port 🤔
I never thought I'd meet someone on RUclips who uses the same camcorder as mine. So glad to see you! 😊
Just thrifted my camera today! Your video helped me understand this process thank you!
I've been looking for ways to do this process for cheap cuz there's a a lot of expensive capturing methods. I'm 100% doing this! Thank you so much for posting this tutorial!!!!
Any luck yet? I am beginning this journey. I have to buy a camcorder first
How did it go ?
so helpful. the footage at the end was super well edited as well. subbed
❤❤❤❤❤ I was searching about this for weeks to find latest video. I'm glad you just uploaded about 1 day ago!
Nice and informative video instructions on how to transfer cassettes to digital, not to mention how pretty and beautiful was the host. :)
Absolutely loved watching this incredibly beautiful video 😎😎
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Thank you for posting this!! Glad to see u posting on youtube
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ty that was really helpful
Thank You So Much!
Thanks so much! Has proven so useful for digitizing or making feedback loops !
Super helpful video!! What kind of usb adapter do you use for ur Mac?
This was so helpful and I love the way its edited!
Glad it was helpful 🫶🏽
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This was such a simple solution but worked!! I got all the apple thunderbolt adapters before and it gave me such a headache and didn't work...
just one thing, I followed all the steps but the audio seems to not be recording, do you have any troubleshooting tips for this?
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i have a camcorder that had no way to export video unless i purchase its original docking station for £200 on ebay! Used the AV out cable that had those male red/white/yellow plug, bought the adapter as suggested, and it worked perfectly! One note i'd like to add is when starting to record on OBS, make sure the internal mic of your pc/mac is turned off.
So happy it worked for you!!
Thank you 🙏
This is AMAZING and so helpful ❤❤ THANK YOU!
hope it was pretty straightforward and easy to understand 😅 thanks for watching!
This was the best tutorial EVER!! Thank you so much❤
LOVE LOVE this! I have SO many family videos I want to digitize and hopefully this will do the trick. Have the converter and cable coming soon!
Thank you. There are so many expensive ways of doing this. Glad I found your version, Thanks again
i have looked for a good tutorial on this for such a long time so thank you so much! this was amazing !!
Thank you SO much from this! This might be silly to ask but do you know if theres any way to remove the timestamp/date embedded in the videos taken from my camcorder??
It works well with Sony handcam DCR-TRV285E. I hope this comment will help someone in future just like this awesome video.
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hi audrieeee i just wanna ask if did u ever had a problem in your minidv camcroders where it says "use new adapter or reinstall" I don't know why but i did all kind of things but still it's blinking fast and it won't open unless it's charging
Thank you! Been searching for a solution for a while
Hi Audrie ! Thanks for your tutorial ! I have the same camcorder and I did the transfer step by step thanks to this video. I only have one problem. The image is in blu on OBS when I press PLAY. Maybe I did something wrong but I don't know.. Maybe you know why it's in blue. And thanks for all you videos !!
Thanks for the help! This was exactly what I needed!!
This is exactly what I needed, thank you!
Thanks to this video,I could do it! I'm enjoyed watching your video in Japan🙌
Hello! How do you put the timestamp on the video itself? Like when you export it into mp4 its shows in the video the time and date. Thank you!
got everything done until 5:01 but I can't see my video... any ideas?
same for me and I have all the same equipment just a Panasonic
Hey! I was wondering if you’re thinking about going tapeless with the rc powerplay any time soon? I recently won a handycam in a giveaway and I’m super excited to use it for the summer
Thank you for this!
thank you so much!! going to digitize a bunch of my family's home videos
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Thank you for still watching 🥹
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I teared up reading this 🥲 thank you for the kind words and I’m so happy to hear that you’ve enjoyed my videos! Life has been a bit rough health-wise for me this year, but I’m feeling much better and hoping I can keep up with a more consistent schedule.
Hi :) i was wondering if your camera has a usb cable itself, as i have a sony handycam carl zeiss vario-tessar and it has one, but when i plug it into the pc i cant see the camera
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hello, so I've followed along your tutorial and I'm having issues with the audio because it will start fine in the beginning but then the audio will have an ech sounds. Any idea what this could be causing??
Quick question.. my camcorder is missing its battery, however I do own a cable that is plugged onto the cam and then into the outlet, that gets the cam going, can I still convert my mini dv without the battery?
thank u
Thanks for watching!
You helped me by aspect ratio😅
i have a question, my camcorder the Song TRV-65 doesn’t have one single audio/video input, it just has the red,yellow,white, and s video, will that converter still work on mine? or do i need to buy a ‘s video’ output with those other three?
no. the svideo will take the place of the yellow connection. you will need an s video cable and the red and white cables for audio
I recorded a roughly 10 minute video and converted it on my Mac. The final video size was 1.1GB which I think is outrageously big. Got any advice on how I can trim down the size?
hi what is that white USB port that you inserted the black usb stick into? at timestamp 3:14? thank you
That’s USB to USB-C adapter.
bought a 2012 mac mini Catalina for $100 last year of firewire plugged it in loaded life flix and everything worked perfectly no extra cables or work around
What’s the thing called that’s holding onto your laptop, making it look nice and slanted?
how do you flip flop between camcorder and regular footage. The problem I keep running into is that the program I’m using (adobe premiere) isn’t letting me add both footage from both devices into the same video when I edit, please let me know if you ever ran into this problem, fan of your videos.Thanks !
thanks Audrie
btw after export to file why the sound have a noise ?
It might be your camcorder or the mic on your computer may not have been muted during the recording
ahh i see, so we must muted the camcorder during recording. Thanks@@AudrieStorme, i will try
Not the camcorder - the computer mic! Otherwise your footage won’t have any sound
anychance would you know what cabel i need? i only have a seperate audio (one black) and video input (one yellow)
You can do an hour’s video without memory issues? I tried on my mac mini M1 and it stops recording. So I use a Sony VRDMC5 to burn DVDs and then rip and convert files.
do you know if this will work (sound wise) if i don't have an audio jack and just a mic jack? i have like a super old panasonic camcorder
I’d need to see it to be sure, but if it doesn’t, I’m assuming that the camcorder wasn’t meant to be connected to an another source and relied on its tapes being played on a tape deck or something like that.
TYSM! Thought I had to order another cable! SAVED ME MONEY 😭😭😭
You're welcome!!
This is such a great video and explanation! Thank you so much!!
Is one of the cable ports left loose? Because you connected red white and yellow but not the black one?
What editing software you use ?
Get an old mac or pc with a firewire port and capture to an external hard drive. Only use this method of analog capture with analog camcorders. Most of the usb to composite devices are junk, el gato makes a farily descent one however.
One question: I have some 8mm cassettes where I recorded videos with a Sony Handicam (I don't remember the model). Then it broke and I threw it away. Quite a few years have passed since then. Now I bought a similar Sony handycam (although a little smaller but the same, from HI8) because I wanted to convert those cassettes to digital but when I tried to play them I got streaks and sounds, similar to those of a TV when the cable goes out. Then I recorded a few seconds over what was recorded to see if the problem continued, but no. The little that I recorded did look good. Apparently I bought the camera for nothing. What could be causing this problem?
Hi8 and 8mm cassettes are not the same - I believe Hi8 is an updated version of 8mm, so you’re probably having issues converting because those formats aren’t compatible. I can’t be for sure since I don’t know the model of your camera, but I’m guessing it’s that!
my old sharp camcorder doesn't have an Audio/Video single input so I used an RCA red, white, yellow cable outputs (since the do send audio and video signals) from the camcorder to connect the the video capture card same RCA color inputs then USB to my MacBook. I used Quicktime to capture the video and audio. The Audio is very faint and not as high sound. Maybe I should use OBS, but need to figure out the configuration since , again I dont have a single audio/video input on the camcorder. Any suggestions?
The cable method you’re describing sounds like it should work to me! I just tried using QuickTime as a test and it seems like the audio is being defaulted to using my MacBook mic (so I can hear all the external camcorder sounds as well as the audio from the footage), but maybe try increasing the volume on the camcorder and seeing if that works at all?
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Hii the video was really informative but i have a problem. I did everything like you did with the cables and the settings but when i look at the recorded vid on my laptop it doesnt run smoothly. It looks like a really old cartoon with a film made out of separate drawings one after another. Any idea why that might be or a solution??
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thanks for this amazing tutorial
This was so helpful! But for some reason my audio isn’t working
the same
does obs detect cvbs output. im getting audio output from the camcorder but not video footage onto obs :( do u know a fix?
I tried this with my SONY DCR- TRV828E camera but my footage was in black and white and had a lot of noise, do you think using an S-video chord would fix that.
Yes, you could try that! The method in the video has worked for several of my camcorders, but this whole process really depends on your camcorder input/output - another method may work better depending on the type.
Can you also play videos on the camera itself? We don’t have those cables. We would like to watch it in the device 😊
Awesome 🎉
This is great. Thanks for the video it's really easy to understand, and now i can copy all my mini dvs 🤩 thx again.
does this work from a canon mv700 to a hp laptop?
Under devices, I only see Facetime HD Camera and OBS Virtual Camera. How can I add AV to USB 2.0?
Great video! I hoped this would work for me, but the camcorder is stuck in 'PC mode' so the recording doesn't show up on OBS.
Can you use the tape in any type of camcorder
Gotta love digitizing the old medium
Who are you calling old
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Hey, is it even better to use a s-video cable on top of the red yellow and white one or doesnot it do something?
If yours has that input, you can try plugging it in and seeing how it looks - mine doesn’t fit that so I didn’t use it!
Hi! I used OBS successfully to do this once before but I can’t get it to work again. It’s not letting me add the capture device as a source. It only shows my laptop camera and the OBS virtual camera. Any way to fix this?
Hey, only the audio is appearing on OBS for me, any trouble shooting tips?
same any one figure this out???
Can we Directly record on it i mean without cassette
Is there any possible way to be able to get the date and time stamp when you digitalize the footages?
The time stamp is usually a setting on the camcorder that you turn on while recording (in my experience), so if you had that setting off, then no.
Does anyone know if the open broadcaster software works for chrome book laptops ?
Can you please show how to fix the colour after connecting.
The other methods we tried did not work only this method worked and I would really like to know how to fix the colour part of it
HELP I followed all the steps but the audio doesn’t seem to be working for me? It’s a Sony dcr-hc36 btw
update: i finally figured it out lol. if you have the same problem as me, just add audio output capture to your sources
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I have bought the Samsung 8mm Video8 Camcorder
Hey! I have everything setup axactly the same. All the cables and adapters exactly the same. I am using a laptop though. I don't get any image display. Could anyone help please? Am I missing something?
It came with a small CD. Is that a video capture software or do I need to install a software for the video capture USB to work? My laptop doesn't take CD's.
Is there any way to fix an audio echo occurring when a recording SONY handycam to digital video with OBS recording?
I’m having the same issue
I’m having the same issue
@@Samxglez I think I found a solution for my situation, I muted the additional 'Audio' line she sets up in the tutorial, since OBS showed that sound was already coming from my camcorder. I think one of the two sources was causing a lag, so just using the camcorder audio seems to work. Although, I will sometimes get stretches in the video with no sound and I have to re-record. So overall, not a perfect system, but it just takes patience and troubleshooting. I'm using a sony handycam digital 8.
@@rachelsfoodventures54 Thank you I will try that out because I have a Sony handycam that uses hi8 cassettes and I hope that this will work for me.
What video editing software do you use?
Adobe Premiere for long-form and Premiere Rush & CapCut for short-form videos!