TAPELESS Camcorders The easy way 

Thank you for watching! If you have any questions I did not answer please check the comments! The viewers have also put in allot of helpful info of their own!

I love the fact that you use the older equipment and by simply thinking out of the box come up with a pretty reasonable, workable solution.

This vid is one of the best ive seen in yt history

Dude this rules, much respect. I see these cams listed on marketplace all the time with broken tape decks but will def pick one up pronto

If you use an s-video cable you will get better video quality. It’s kinda like old school hdmi. Only problem with it is you have to run the white and red audio cables with it because s-video doesn’t have audio.

Hey man after about a month and a half of gathering hardware I've finally completed my GL2 setup with the method you provided!! Thanks a ton dude, gonna get rad ski clips

GL2 was my first skate camcorder, hyped to see it getting some new love

7:50 'i got a new camcorder, of course I'm gonna mess with it times a million' this is exactly the energy i'm feeling as well after I picked up a TRV900

you changed my life you are the best

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! This answered so many questions!!

nice vid , been wanting to get my hands on a vx. but i think you inspired me down a dif route

Amazing explanation, amazing camera!

Super badass, thank you for this video man!!

That’s a sick little trick dude! It already looks like a skate video without any shots of skating so that must be a good sign!

I'm gonna blow everybodys mind now - wanna do it REAL on a budget? Get cam like on the vid, buy cheap CAR REARVIEV CAMERA RECORDER with av input for rear cam, connect camera to the car recorder - car recorder recording vid from your vintage camera as the "back" video - now you have digital files with additional front camrec video 😁 🤘🏻

I recently got one of these cameras from a homie I’m really young and can’t wait to use it

Hell Yea dude, I've had a GL1 just sitting and collecting dust, I think this video might make me pick it up and start shooting with it.

This is really useful coming from the point of a broke teen wanting to film skateboarding thank you very much!!!

lifesaver using this method on my small panasonic gs80 camcorder hopefully still gonna work well

Had one of these back in the day of skateboarding! (15 years ago) and I absolutely loved. Did moving image a college and used it for that too. Love that old school look you get from this beast! Miss those days 😔

Thank you for this video I recently bought this canon GL2 and the GL1 SO I am going to get this product for my Canon so I don't have to used tape thank you

Sick! Thanks homie 💪🏼

Thank you so much!!! I just got a CANNON XL2 for $240! I thought I would have to have a laptop and you solved my issue so simply. I'm a comedian /imressionist that can do darth Vader's voice and I will do a qhone greeting or a voice over for you excellent video.

Thanks Tim, that is a great idea. I have a Canon XHA1 in absolute perfect condition, does record in tape, but I can't deal with tapes anymore. I'll buy the Clearclick and convert to a "fully digital" HD camera. (my Canon has a slot for a SD card, but sadly only records pictures, not videos 😫) Cheers from San Diego. Thanks again !

Thanks so much for the video I'm not gonna use this exact device, but a famous Japanese car part store called Up Garage opened its first non-Japan location in my city. It caused alot of interesting 80s/90s cars to loiter around the store/area, and I can't find a better reason to start digitizing a camcorder I was toying with! Dropping the reliance on tape would be a real gamechanger

thanks man!! managed to pick up a working vx2100 for around 200 bucks, but i dont really wanna fuck with the cassetes anymore, so this came in handy!!

thanks alot man big help

I will try this with my cannon GL2

Thanks for the tutorial. I just picked up a Canon XL2 from Goodwill for ＄19. It’s missing the power sources, the lenses, and the viewfinder. Otherwise, it’s still a steal at this price.

Hey thanks for the demo, clearest one I've seen yet. If I remember correctly you'll get a slightly better image if you transmit through S-Video rather than RCA since the ClearClick takes that input also. How do you carry the power bank and recorder while shooting?

Cool video! This was my first prosumer camcorder back in the day before switching over to countless VXs/ HVX. Is the quality loss noticeable since it's recording from the camera screen and not actually the camera itself like the other digital recorder counterparts?

Thank you i have a canon xl h1 and i hope to do the same.

Well done amigo

You should try 3d printing mounting brackets for the battery & display and go with custom cabling to reduce cable tangle. That would be a cool follow up video.

Thanks 🙏🏻

Nice tats dude🤙🤘

Awesome vid yo! Do you need an adapter ring to put on the fisheye? Im thinking about getting the 58mm opteka but want to make sure I get the right size!

woah good idea

I bought this unit brand new and paid I don't want to tell you how much. It has an old technology you're not familiar with it's called Sony I link which was FireWire period. It's right up above where you put the quarter inch plug in and you can come out of that and hook it directly into the computer that transmits all your sound and all your images directly to a computer and you don't need all of those converters. I set mine up in the studio in front of a green screen. The great thing that you may not know about this camera is that it can be used as a DSLR. It has all of the same features of a DSLR. You can get some really dramatic looking shots. It's just missing the high megapixel quality.

There is a MUCH better way to do this. Buy a monitor that records what it’s displaying to SD card, that takes an LP battery and has RCA inputs (FireWire or HDMI) and takes LP battery. Set it in the hot shoe. Plug it in. You’re all set. You can get these monitors for under $120. If you can’t find one with the RCA chords, you will need adapters from FireWire to HDMI or USB depending on which you get. These little “digital” converters often suck, and make the footage look terrible. you have to delace the footage and even then it still never looks right. These old cameras were made for totally different types of televisions (CRT), and unless you’re watching your footage on one, footage from these old 3 chip cameras never looks the way it was meant to, and thus you’re not really getting that vintage look as it was intended to look. However I have found the best way to get it, is simply to screen record it using these cheap camera monitors that can record what’s being displayed. Or to simply use an older MacBook and import the footage like it used to be done.

Congratz you got a Like! You could show your setup when filming with all that stuff.

Many of the older Canons have the opposite problem where the tape mechanism works fine, but there is no video. Those are pretty much useless for this application. But it's nice to see an old broken camera put to good use.

Hey man - Awesome video! How do you actually record? Is this something you engage on the clearclick?

since the clearclick has sVideo an sVideo cable woult be the the preferred solution, since it provides much better quality image as well as the advantage that you need just one single cable which is also available in very short an is thus very easy to manage and much more portable.

What about the on-screen information like timecode, battery and all other little symbols? I have a Samsung camcorder with a broken tape mechanism and it has a constant blinking „INSERT TAPE“ message on-screen when using the viewfinder, I obviously wouldn‘t want that on all my recordings

Hey man, awesome video I just have a few questions. So I have the same camera as you (Canon GL2) and everything’s hooked up all correctly, but I just can’t seem to get a display on the clearclick even with the camera turned on and everything plugged in. It’s just stuck on that blue screen almost like something’s not connecting properly. I tried AV and S-video but neither seem to work.

Can you still use the on camera viewfinder/ LCD screen when recording on the ClearClick?

Hey awesome video! Wanted to ask maybe you can tell me or someone in comment section, can someone please write me more options on camcorders like Canon GL2 that i could also change tapeless...?

I ordered a 10 pack of dv tapes already should pry gonna buy one of those when it’s a pain to get my clips on my pc

I ended up doing something similar. bought a panasonic dvx100 on goodwill for $60. screen ended up being bad, and no idea if tape deck worked. Got lucky and found an off brand clear click for $30 and a phone mount, command stripped a 10k mha battery bank i had already on it and we are in buisiness!

Starting to see these in the wild. We must RETURN to AESTHETIC art technology and REJECT buying new IPHONES every year.

I see some for cheaper but not from the brand clearclick are they as good?

Where did you get your cable? (The one that goes into the camera to the capture card) I’m going to try this with a Sony DSC-F707 which has the yellow port plug in.

I still have a mostly functional GL2 in my closet. The mic is screwed and makes glitchy noises. I wonder if you can just record audio via quarter inch?

Yo so I don’t have rca cables on my camera. Only svideo and a aux input, would I need the svideo and a yellow rca to aux to capture sound and video?

Broooo you got a subscription

There are DV input recorders who write DV files to a flashmemory and you simply connect them via the Firewire output of the Camcoder and the firewire input of the recorder. I think sony made these a while ago and i think they also worked with HDV camcorders. With such DV recorder you could get the exact same quality of the camera without compromises like with this method here. Because nothing needed to be converted to an Analog signal-path and being digitized again to a lossy MPEG4 format.

That camera could have DV outlet for vídeo and audio

this is rad

Hey do you think this would work for a Sony Fx-1 and if not do you have another solution

so to my understanding your recording off of the clear click from the video out from the camcorder. Does that mean you have to carry around all those cables around while filming. Also could you use tapes to record on a fully working camcorder and then play back the tapes and record with the clear click to digitize?? Just bought a TRV65 to setup for recording and want to figure this all out.

does this work with minidv? i have a panasonic PV-DV400D and i just want to make sure it works before i buy the card.

Interesting but you will have to carry all this cables. You could also buy a broken HD minidv camera and have greater image quality and HD cable for the click recording device.

My set up is having issues with the cable and have to have it half hanging out how do I flix that ?

Sony CCD-TR60 video camera, is this camera suitable for this purpose?

What settings are you using on the camera, do you film on auto or do you film on manual?

is there a way to get playback directly from canon after filming?

Hi, great video, i have a cuestion, in the camera monitor do you see any title or time stamps? Or see a signal about no tape inserted on the cam? Or is just what the lenses see?? I have a handy cam and in the monitor screen it have some icons but I don’t know if with the Clear Click i will have all those icons on my video

Does the click have a memory card or is it a hard drive, how do you save what your videoing.

Ok so everything works, but how do I turn off all the little widgets that appear on both the cams LCD screen and that of the clearclick. Because each time I capture the screen, it shows the widgets (e.g. insert tape widget). Any tips?

is there any alternative for the clearclick device? they don't sell these in my country

How did you get the sound to be so good? On my Grabstar PRO dnt, twice as expensive, the sound was terrible. There are also no audio resolution settings. So, how did you manage to make it sound so good?

Awesome vid, just bought this to film skateboarding with a hi8 camera. I haven’t seen this on any videos about the clear click so I’m assuming there’s no playback feature until you have uploaded to pc?

You can also do this with an atomos Ninja 2 which will have its own battery.

What fish eye and adapter do you use?

Video quality goes in this order: Composite Video (yellow, red, white) = Good, S-Video = Better (better than composite), Firewire = Best. Firewire is exactly the same quality as the Mini-DV or near the same. I have a Canon GL1 with mini-DV and we are looking for a solution to record to an external source that only uses Firewire without a laptop of any kind. Like a portable recording device that supports SD Cards.

sickkk

does it work with the xm1 as well?

Just got a GL2 for tf of it on eBay and the headers are so messed up I’m most likely going to have to go this route as well just to get footy w it

Can you review your clips you just filmed right then and there?

bro, i got my vx1000 in near mint condition with the original packaging for around $400. it’s not hard to find 1Ks for reasonable prices, you just need to know where to look.

i love your vidéo!! Do you think if I buy a cable with only the white and the red cable and i add a s video cable it will work?

does the mount hold the converter and the power bank? And also, all the camera functions still work though right? I'm assuming theres color/picture modes etc. Or do you loose features doing this?

I have the same capturing device with a different name on it. I used it a few times [connected to my camcorder], but the quality is not the greatest. I wonder if it makes more sense to get a RCA to HDMI converter and then use something like a Atomos Ninja V? Yes, the Ninja is around $400 - 500 bucks, but the quality should be way better. Should, but I am not sure.

can you show us how you mounted it and keep the cables tucked

Nice job! That was easy and ....well easy. Easy II What are you working on next? tHanks for the video

does this also work with a night vision mode?

What was that mount you used in the thumbnail?

This is a way better option than recording on tape first! Should it record in 720p or could I buy a cheaper unit that captures 480p?

Great idea but you have digital video on tape you transfer analogue then record digital on the clear click, what we need is a Firewire to clear click

Will gl1 work the same?

does this work with the trv 900

How do you keep it all together while filming

hey man hope u can help me out, got the same setup and tested it out today and once transferred to my computer i have no sound and quality is garbage are there settings i need to mess with ?

You linked the usb and didn’t use it(or maybe I missed it) im assuming you’re using that in place of formatting a sd card right? So the clear click supports filming onto the usb? Am new to this and got a cheap gl2 and fisheye, thanks

dude thanks a lot a have a vx2000 ı want clearclick but in turkey no one selling it

Do the clearclick capture in 60fps ?

I went the Powerplay route with my gl1 and the cord has to be hanging out halfway it’s a bitch. Gonna try this 🙌

Our church was gifted with a cannon xl 2 will this work around work for it? Thanks.

where can i find the xm2 in france/paris?