[Jennifer Bennett]

Thanks for the information! I don’t know why I was thinking yellow was for sound. Ugh! Anyway, yes, the other end of the yellow/black RCA cable is a 1/8″ that fits into the A/V port on the camera. It is a Sony Handycam, video Hi8, CCD TR818 NTSC. There are no RCA outputs on the camera, just the A/V jack. Thanks for all the advice on the mechanics of getting it hooked to the computer! I am going to try again today and hopefully I will get it to work w/ FCP.

I really appreciate everyone’s advice!

[Jennifer Bennett]

Thanks for your response! The camera doesn’t have RCA audio out. I borrowed it from someone to try and transfer these tapes, and it seems pretty old! There is only a A/V out on the camera. I have a cord w/ a black RCA & a yellow RCA on one end, and the other end fits into the camera. I tried to plug just the yellow RCA into both the R and L audio in on the converter, but no luck. I was assuming the yellow RCA was the sound. I tried to run the camera through the miniDV deck, but maybe I didn’t have it all connected properly. Connecting things together isn’t my strong suit! I’ll keep trying! Thank you again! I appreciate your help!

[Jennifer Bennett]

Thank you Thank you Thank you! I unselected “Remove Advanced Pulldown and Duplicate frames” and everything worked! I really, really appreciate it!

[Jennifer Bennett]

Thanks for your speedy response! I will give that a try. I don’t think my footage is messed up because it plays in the camera and in the transfer preview menu correctly. I think the problem is just getting it to mesh in FCP. I was never very good at the technical details! I guess I have a lot to learn! The strange thing is that not all the clips were incomplete transfers. There were a few that went into the timeline perfectly fine and they had all the same settings. I will keep trying!