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Camcorder to Mac

DJMastaWes

DJMastaWes

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Jan 14, 2006
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Hello everyone.

My friend has a Panasonic PV-DV202-K camera, and we need to do a video for a school project. It comes with a USB wire to hook up to the camera, and it takes on of those DV tapes. It's not showing up on my computer or in iMovie. Is this camera only for windows? If it is.. what do I do!!!!!!!!!!

I really need to edit it on a mac.

Thanks.
 
Josephkyles said:
You need to hook the camera up with a firewire cable not USB
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The only firewire cable I have is the one that goes into the camera, and goes into a PC. I don't have one that goes in a mac. Can I buy the cheap somewhere?

No way to do it with USB?

If I get the firewire... Will it really work?
 
DJMastaWes said:
The only firewire cable I have is the one that goes into the camera, and goes into a PC. I don't have one that goes in a mac. Can I buy the cheap somewhere?
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What do mean by this? FireWire ports on PCs and Macs are the same. Camcorders often have a four-pin FireWire connector, while you would need a six-pin connector for the PC/Mac end of the cable.
 
You need a 4pin to 6pin firewire cable. (Apple uses 6pin firewire, and the camera uses 4 pin) Yes, if you get this it will work. No, you can not transfer video from a miniDV tape with USB. That is for pictures stored on the memory card.
 
WildCowboy said:
What do mean by this? FireWire ports on PCs and Macs are the same. Camcorders often have a four-pin FireWire connector, while you would need a six-pin connector for the PC/Mac end of the cable.
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Many PCs are now using 4Pin firewire instead of 6 pin.
 
Josephkyles said:
You need a 4pin to 6pin firewire cable. (Apple uses 6pin firewire, and the camera uses 4 pin) Yes, if you get this it will work. No, you can not transfer video from a miniDV tape with USB. That is for pictures stored on the memory card.
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But firewire I can?
 
Okay...yes, you need something like a 4-pin to 6-pin FireWire cable...that will work.

There are adapters available that would convert one end of your current 4-pin to 4-pin cable to a 6-pin connector, but they can be hard to find. It would be a lot cheaper than a new cable though.

(Your brother's computer uses a 4-pin port? I haven't seen that before...usually computers use the sturdier 6-pin ports.)

Josephkyles said:
Many PCs are now using 4Pin firewire instead of 6 pin.
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That means I'm not spending enough time around PCs these days...I suppose that's a good thing.
 
Yeah, my bro has a 4 pin in his computer.

So, is this what I need? (So I don't make a mistake) http://www.bestbuy.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?logon=&langid=EN&sku_id=0926INGFS10052003&catid=20168# .

Also, anyone know a place with good Final Cut Express tutorials? I need to edit this video, but I have never used FCE and I have like a week only. iMovie isn't exactly what I need. I need to be able to ass photos to the video and test so that it's on top of the video. IE, we have a news scence, so we're going to put like a 100x100 image beside the perosn talking... like on the news.

Thanks for all your help guys... I was really worried.
 
WildCowboy said:
That'll do it! You might be able to save a few more bucks if you can get away with a shorter cable (and find one). But that's not bad.
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Alright, when I'm in the store I'll look for a shorter one.
 
camcorder

everyone is correct, you need a 6 pin to 4 pin firewire cable... the USB you plugged in FYI is for reading the memory card that the camcorder has for its still camera... why they can't use one cable I'll never know... wouldn't it have been nice if apple told you what was going on when you plugged it in? Windows would..

DD
 
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