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| Thread ID: 115059 | 2010-12-30 21:33:00 | Need a video camera | nedkelly (9059) | PC World Chat |
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| 1165726 | 2010-12-30 21:33:00 | I have come across a stack of my dads old tapes for his camera and want to copy them onto my pc, I have been looking for an older camera with firewire so I can use iMovie to copy them but cant find one on trademe. Does anyone know where I might be able to find one? | nedkelly (9059) | ||
| 1165727 | 2010-12-30 21:53:00 | Trademe. I sold my JVC camera that cost me $1000 for $30, they are pretty much worthless. |
Metla (12) | ||
| 1165728 | 2010-12-30 22:00:00 | If you can't a camera with firewire then see if you can get a firewire converter. | wmoore (6009) | ||
| 1165729 | 2010-12-30 22:32:00 | What type of tapes are they, and/or from what brand/model of camera (otherwise we're in the dark here), do you have the original camera and does it still go? | feersumendjinn (64) | ||
| 1165730 | 2010-12-30 22:56:00 | They are I think Hi8 tapes, they were used in a panasonic camera, yes I have the original camera and it works but it does not have a firewire port on it. | nedkelly (9059) | ||
| 1165731 | 2010-12-30 23:43:00 | en.wikipedia.org www.google.co.nz pressf1.pcworld.co.nz Composite or S-video would probably be the most common output, but you may get component or digital output on some higher value cameras. This is all fairly old technology now, long before the HD stuff demanded now. You shouldn't expect great results in conversion of these tapes even if you can find something with digital output. What outputs do you have on your Panasonic? |
feersumendjinn (64) | ||
| 1165732 | 2010-12-31 00:11:00 | rca plugs, not sure about s-video | nedkelly (9059) | ||
| 1165733 | 2010-12-31 01:25:00 | If the RCAs are coloured red/blue/green that's component video (better than S-video), one yellow will be composite (worst quality), audio will be red/white (for stereo out) This may help reviews.cnet.com dvr.about.com |
feersumendjinn (64) | ||
| 1165734 | 2010-12-31 01:34:00 | my canon mini DV camera has a bypass on it, so you can hook another camera/vcr to it to go through to firewire. Which would be a lot easier to find then a Hi8 camera | plod (107) | ||
| 1165735 | 2010-12-31 02:01:00 | They are yellow red and white. plod: What model is it? |
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