Digital Camcorder question

[Tarrasque Wrangler]

I own a Sony TRV-33 MiniDV camcorder. It mates up to my Sony DVD/VCR combo player via A/V jacks. I have some items on VHS tape that I'd like to transfer to the DV in the camcorder (and then transfer to my computer - I'm too cheap to buy a capture card ), but the only setup I've been able to figure out goes in the opposite direction, recording onto the VHS from the DV tape. How can I work this? Is there any way to do this using the camcorder?

 

[Ayrk]

I own a Sony TRV-33 MiniDV camcorder. It mates up to my Sony DVD/VCR combo player via A/V jacks. I have some items on VHS tape that I'd like to transfer to the DV in the camcorder (and then transfer to my computer - I'm too cheap to buy a capture card ), but the only setup I've been able to figure out goes in the opposite direction, recording onto the VHS from the DV tape. How can I work this? Is there any way to do this using the camcorder?

Can't you just connect the camera to the outputs on your VCR and then press play on the VCR? It should appear on your Camcorder and they you can just hit record.

At least that is how my Sony camcorder works.

 

[Tarrasque Wrangler]

You know, I don't why that never occured to me. For some reason I assumed I could do the same thing with the inputs on the front of my VCR, but I guess those are "input only", i.e. for dubbing a copy of the camcorder's MiniDV tape onto a VHS tape or playing back camcorder footage on my TV. It still seems like there should be a way to do this, but in the meantime I can just run the camcorder's A/V cables to the back of the VCR, where the output is.

 

[ciaran00]

If you don't mind me asking, which DV camcorder did you have... and how easy was it to xfer to PC?

ciaran

 

[Tarrasque Wrangler]

As I mentioned above, it's a Sony TRV-33 MiniDV Digital Handycam. Now, I also own a Sony Vaio PC (can you tell I dig Sony?), so I don't know if it's especially easy to do it from the camera to the PC for other brands, but you just slap the firewire in, hook it up to the PC, the PC recognizes it as new hardware, and you open up the utility and start recording. It downloads video in real time with a firewire, and I've never had occasion to use the USB to transfer video. All super-easy.

Incidentally, to see my handiwork check out my website linked below. One video's up, and another one will be shot this weekend and will probably be up by the end of next week.