CAMCORDER COMPONENTS (noob)

leddpipe

Hello,

I have a Samsung VP-D381 Mini DV Camcorder;



I am wondering does anyone know where I can get a suitable USB cable for this camcorder.

Its outlets are:

1) DC IN
2) AV
3) DV



(Noobness over )

leddpipe

In Dub city if possible!

mrmac

Had a quick google for the specs, and it doesn't have a USB connection, so you're outta luck. It does have a IEEE1394 port, better known as Firewire, but you'd need a firewire port on your PC as well.

You may be able to connect your AV out (composite), via some sort of adapter (eg. dazzle) to a USB port, or straight into a suitable graphics card.

Someone else may be able to expand on that???

tonyj_mc

good luck with the use cagle, get yourself into maplins or the like and they will sort you out with a firewire card and cable, if you don't mind waiting try deal extreme.

as suggested you could try one of the usb capture cards but if your spending money anyway better of to use the firewire (DV) connection

leddpipe

thanks for the responses folks!
i see the following on sale in Lidl on thursday:
http://www.lidl.ie/ie/home.nsf/pages/c.o.20090917.p.USB_Video_Grabber

would these be of any use?

Ghost Train

leddpipe wrote: »

thanks for the responses folks!
i see the following on sale in Lidl on thursday:
http://www.lidl.ie/ie/home.nsf/pages/c.o.20090917.p.USB_Video_Grabber

would these be of any use?

You could if you have the av cable for the camcorder, but you will loose some quality doing it that way


what do you want to do with the video... put it on DVD? or on the internet?
Do you have a dvd recorder connected to your TV that you can use?

Would say using a dvd recorder might be more straight forward, if it has a firewire (i-link connection) then that should give decent quality, good guide here http://www.supermediastore.com/tape-minidv-to-dvd.html

Ricky91t

leddpipe wrote: »

thanks for the responses folks!
i see the following on sale in Lidl on thursday:
http://www.lidl.ie/ie/home.nsf/pages/c.o.20090917.p.USB_Video_Grabber

would these be of any use?

I had one of those and it seemed to miss a few frames here and there,And it really annoyed me although it could of been down to my PC but it was fairly high spec..Either way for the price you should try it,But i think Firewire would be better..