24-03-2025, 07:28 AM
I used the cable that came with the camera. I also bought another Digital 8 Sony second hand as a backup !! The cable they come with are RCA plugs -- 2 stereo plugs red and white and a yellow plug that carries the video---to the multi pin round plug that goes into the camera.
I set the camera to record without a tape in it, plugged into the firewire cable to the PC. I use a simple program called WinDV to capture the video on my PC, but I guess any video program would do.
Set the program up to record,set the camera,start the vcr playing. Only trouble with WinDv there's no sound from PC while it's recording. I stop recording and play back a short segment to check there is sound on the captured file.
I haven't bothered getting into splitting the recorded file into chapters, just let the whole thing play through on a DVD. There's always fast forward!
Done quite a few old tapes for friends and my own of family, weddings, funerals and one for a friend of her childhood 60 years ago I think in Holland.
Only problem is I have to keep an eye on recording time as it's all done in real time, so can be a lengthy thing to do. Although I can use another program to cut off the over run. About 1 hour 20 minutes fits on a DVD. Unless you have another program that can reduce it to fit on a DVD. As I have.
Then once it's on DVD how long do they last!! Have a box full of DVD's that I've copied from VHS.Backups of ones I've done for friends and family. One I did for a friend of his wedding,next thing I know he tells me they've separated! Sometimes wonder why I bother!!
I set the camera to record without a tape in it, plugged into the firewire cable to the PC. I use a simple program called WinDV to capture the video on my PC, but I guess any video program would do.
Set the program up to record,set the camera,start the vcr playing. Only trouble with WinDv there's no sound from PC while it's recording. I stop recording and play back a short segment to check there is sound on the captured file.
I haven't bothered getting into splitting the recorded file into chapters, just let the whole thing play through on a DVD. There's always fast forward!
Done quite a few old tapes for friends and my own of family, weddings, funerals and one for a friend of her childhood 60 years ago I think in Holland.
Only problem is I have to keep an eye on recording time as it's all done in real time, so can be a lengthy thing to do. Although I can use another program to cut off the over run. About 1 hour 20 minutes fits on a DVD. Unless you have another program that can reduce it to fit on a DVD. As I have.
Then once it's on DVD how long do they last!! Have a box full of DVD's that I've copied from VHS.Backups of ones I've done for friends and family. One I did for a friend of his wedding,next thing I know he tells me they've separated! Sometimes wonder why I bother!!