How do I transfer my video from a dv cassette camcorder to my computer?

clevohardcore - 3-9-2011 at 12:59 AM

I need to get the footage from our basement flooding in 2005 to the lawyers in Chicago that are handling our class action lawsuit.

I have a CANNON dv recorder that takes those small dv cassettes and a macbook. I want to take just the footage of the flood and send it to him in a email. I don't want to send or lose the family stuff.

Six66Mike - 3-9-2011 at 03:39 AM

On Mac no clue, Final Cut Pro? lol I'm pretty sure that shit is expensive.

I used Ulead software, it's now Corel Visual Studio or something but it's Windows. Might have a Mac version.

BDx13 - 3-9-2011 at 09:11 AM

clevo, do you have imovie?

clevohardcore - 3-9-2011 at 03:44 PM

Do you have to pay for imovie?

wesxedge - 3-10-2011 at 07:04 AM

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Originally posted by clevohardcore
I need to get the footage from our basement flooding in 2005 to the lawyers in Chicago that are handling our class action lawsuit.

I have a CANNON dv recorder that takes those small dv cassettes and a macbook. I want to take just the footage of the flood and send it to him in a email. I don't want to send or lose the family stuff.

You should be able to connect your video camera directly to your firewire port on the Mac (assuming it's fairly new) and import your video feed directly into iMovie. (Which I believe is included with all Apple computers.)

BDx13 - 3-10-2011 at 08:11 AM

clevo, look and see if your computer has imovie.
like wes said, macs should include imovie as part of ilife.

clevohardcore - 3-10-2011 at 04:17 PM

I have imovie but I have the white MACBOOK and apparently it doesnt have FIREWIRE. FIREWIRE is the only way to tranfer video from CANON so I can' tuse my MAC. SO I have to use another PC which sucks, but whatever. Looks like my next MAC will need firewire. Do they come with it on MACBOOK PRO's?

BDx13 - 3-10-2011 at 05:01 PM

Can you give me your computer's model number?
- Go to the apple in the top left corner and select 'about this mac'
- In the window that opens, click 'more info'
- In the next window that appears, you'll see 'Model Identifier'
Tell me what is says there. For example, mine is MacBookPro4,1

They make FW to USB cables, but I just want to make sure that would work for ya first. how much video are we talking about?

clevohardcore - 3-10-2011 at 08:43 PM

Like 10-15 minutes worth.

Macbook6,1 is the model.

clevohardcore - 3-11-2011 at 03:24 AM

i had to use an old PC and I think everything worked out. I did have to buy a firewire cord at $40 so that sucked.

BD if you know of some way I can do this in the future for my MAC please let me know what I would need to do. I have imovie and it looks really fucking sweet to use so I really want to figure a way I can with my camcorder. Maybe there is an USB attachment I can use with the firewire to make it work? No one at BEST BUY new of one.