DV Tape

[flvideo]

I am still shooting on DV tape and I want to get the Bogart 6.1 for Windows. What is the best way to get a video input into my Desk top? I use firewire on my Rennie but there is no video input on my Dell!

[CKNewman]

If your Dell has a 6-pin firewire input you can try a 4-pin to 6-pin cable. Otherwise you may be able to install a firewire card yourself or have the place you purchased your computer or a local computer shop do that for you.

[LegendsStudio]

Here is a Firewire to USB connector for 3 bucks... good luck http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R4 ... r&_sacat=0

[MichaelD]

As far as I'm aware you can't just change the 'plug' - the data is different and so converting it does nothing, well not for video anyway.

Here's (one) comment from an Amazon buyer;

Bought this Item to transfer video footage from my Panasonic camcorders via fire wire to my windows 7 PC (had previously used an XP system for editing) but unfortunately it does not work, windows 7 fails to recognize the connection as a camcorder and even the camcorder sustained damage, so if your looking to buy this product save your money and avoid

If your laptop has a PCMCIA slot you can get a card that goes in there, that supports firewire, however not may laptops have this facility anymore

[Christopher6206]

A few hoops to jump through but can't you import it into your cassie, put the footage into your storyboard and then back up said storyboard to USB or disc and import it into your Dell that way? You should have a full uncompressed .dv file, very large if I remember correctly. Could always use other formats as well. If you're shooting on DV tape and the shoots are long you'd probably have to export them to an external hardrive, 1TB or larger since the files will be huge.

[MichaelD]

A few hoops to jump through but can't you import it into your cassie, put the footage into your storyboard and then back up said storyboard to USB or disc and import it into your Dell that way?

Not with a Cassie Rennie - that will back up to a FireWire drive which puts you back where you started

If you have Disk Transfer you could send out .AVI files from that but they would only be around 20 minute chunks.