Transfer video from Sony hvr-v1u

[EvilC5]

Long story short, a friend of the family passed and left us all of his video gear. The v1u is a pretty high end camera and has several family videos we want to transfer to my Mac before we eBay the camera since it's just a little much for us to shoot stuff around the house.

I have cs4 on my iMac and wondered the best way to transfer the video from the digital tapes and either edit in cs4 or handbrake to apple tv format?

Thanks!

 

[LethalWolfe]

You can capture it via Firewire. If your Mac has FW400 you'll need a FW400 6 pion to 4 pin cable.

If your Mac only has FW800 you'll need a FW800 (9 pin) to FW400 (4 pin) cable.

HDV is the same size as DV which is about 13gig/hr.


Lethal

 

[EvilC5]

Does it capture real time or is it faster?

Thanks!!

Brian

 

[OttawaGuy]

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Tapes = real time.

 

[EvilC5]

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Tapes = real time.

ug....I really dont want to have to watch them, its quite sad.....

 

[Dave Braine]

Start the capture and walk away?

 

[EvilC5]

Start the capture and walk away?

It's a stack of tapes and the 2 I looked at only had like 10 min on them.

Oh well, gotta get done.