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Multimedia and Technology Training At the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
Multimedia and Technology Training At the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
To capture video off your digital camera you need to connect it to the computer with a cable - usually Firewire.
Firewire is the standard for Apple computers and a firewire port is built into each one. It also is used by Windows PC computers to do video capture, although in some cases you'll have to purchase a firewire card to insert into an expansion slot in your PC to create a firewire port.
You connect one end of the cable to the firewire port in the back of your computer. Then connect the other end to the firewire jack in your digital video camera.
On the Sony TRV900, the firewire jack is on the right front side of the camera under the gray flap. It's the jack for DV in/out and has an icon of an I next to it.
Then turn on the camera, setting it to VTR or playback mode, and put the mini-DV tape you want to capture video from into the camera.
When you launch Final Cut Pro it now will detect the camera and allow you to control playing of your mini-DV tape using your computer monitor, including selecting clips to capture.
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