Downloading HDV footage from a camera with MiniDVD tapes

[Chris Wright]

1394 is firewire. do you even have firewire on your motherboard? I’d try using a virtual machine operating system and install an older OS for something like this. Step 1 in windows 10 was to delete all legacy hardware support. You might need an old hardware machine as well. There might be some 3rd party products that have 1394 for the year 2019, but from what I can remember, 1394 was almost direct IRQ input(lower level than directx)

[Francois Pénzes]

Hi Roger

As Chris Wright mentioned, Win 10 may not be the right OS to work with.

I for one haven’t had the best experience with transferring Mini DVs with Win 10. (I use a ZR200)

The best way I found was to use one of my old laptops running Win 7 (with the legacy driver) and one of my older version of Vegas (V. 9) using the Capture Video feature and dumping everything on an external drive. You can also work with XP, I’m pretty confident you can find one for dirt cheap if not for free.

Cheers !

PC Win 10 Pro 64-bit 16gb Intel® Core™i7-2600k Quad Core 3.40GHz
Cameras: Canon XF305 + Canon XH-A1
Blackmagic HyperDeck Studio Mini
Vegas Pro 16, User since Vegas 3.0

\’\’When the cutting stops, the editing begins…\’\’

[John Norton]

Hi Roger FWIW I captured from VHS tapes (using Camcorder as pass through) and DV tapes using camcorder directly and Win 10. I purchased a Pcie card from Amazon.

[Roger Bansemer]

Hi Francios,
Brilliant idea using an old laptop. I simply didn’t consider that. I do have an old one with an old version of Vegas and that solves the problem. Thanks very much everyone for the help.

Roger Bansemer – PaintingAndTravel.com

[Bill Kelly]

I built my own editing computer. Since Firewire is now considered legacy and not standard input on motherboards I added a PCIE Combo 2x 1394b + 1x 1394a Firewire Ports PCI-Express Controller Card with a Texas Instruments chipset. It works great under Windows 10. I have all the firewire connections and data rates. I have a Canon HV10 HDV camera and it works great with the card. I also input firewire from my old Pinnacle Madras also. The Madras also have SDI. I can input all kinds of analog and digital sources just fine with Windows 10 and Vegas Pro 16. I also do what you are doing with my Laptop and older computer that has a Firewire port. But nothing wrong with doing the job on my fast machine!

[Sebastian Fudali]

Oone word: HDVSplit. You don’t need more. You will get video fiels from tape, it can even automatically split them based on timecode.

“Mini DVD” tapes made my day.

[Roger Bansemer]

I’ll give that a try as I’m having issues with everything else I’m trying.
Thanks

Roger

Roger Bansemer – PaintingAndTravel.com

[Roger Bansemer]

I gave HDVsplit a try and it recognizes the camera with the MiniDV tapes. I create a directory where the files are to be stored and give the file a name, switch to the play button on the HDVsplit program and it appears to be recording the footage.
However, when I stop the record and take a look at the file its created there is 0 bytes on the file!
Any suggestions?
Thanks
Roger

Roger Bansemer – PaintingAndTravel.com

[Sebastian Fudali]

Do you stop in HDVsplit, or camcorder?

Let it do the whole tape, it will stop automatically.