bought a 2012 mac mini Catalina for $100 last year of firewire plugged it in loaded life flix and everything worked perfectly no extra cables or work around
Agreed. this is the most proper way. I also use Canopus advc-100 to capture my VHS tapes to DV format. It is really annoying seeing those "tutorials" using those shitty USB dongles with OBS Studio which produce over sharpened, blown highlight/contrast, and improperly deinterlaced captures.
Hi there, thanks for the video 👌 I have the same problem and I hope that your method will work. I have a question: I also have a MacBook and a Sony DCR-TRV830E and I want to digitalise my old videos. Do you think, that your method will work with this camera? If it works, will the quality still be great, or will it lose some quality during the process? Thanks for your help 💐
I quickly check and I think it will work as those cameras are being sold right now with "digitization" in title - so most like I was not only first person who discovered it ^^ There is always quality degradation while working with analog signal - but in my opinion it's going to be close to 0 since it's first playback conversion in chain. Let me and other people know how it work for You. Thanks!
I can't answer that question because it's related to equipment You got. I use: (Apple thunderbolt 3 to thunderbolt 2 adapter) -> (Apple thunderbolt 2 to Firewire adapter 800) -> (firewire 800 to regular 6pin (from some random company)) -> (cable that convert 6pin to 4pin to match camera). If Your compute have firewire port - than You don't need any adapters - just plug it directly.
That's true - but just imagine - You can connect 20 years old equipment into latest MacBook - most like if there will be another iteration - we could just add another dongle :D :D.
