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What's the best way to get video from a Sony Video Camera (Sony DCR-TRV18E) via USB. Any particular software? Help is greatly appreciated.
 
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adrian.wills said:
What's the best way to get video from a Sony Video Camera (Sony DCR-TRV18E) via USB. Any particular software? Help is greatly appreciated.
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just stick in the USB and open it with iMovie HD and then if you want to put it on DVD then open iDVD and walla! :yinyang:
 
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it is as easy as iRule said.
 
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Does iMovie see usb video cameras now? I thought that you can only use firewire cameras with iMovie.
 
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rman said:
Does iMovie see usb video cameras now? I thought that you can only use firewire cameras with iMovie.
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Correct.

You can only use FW cameras/video-hardware with iMovie. When you plug in USB the only thing it will see is a memory card reader if your camera doubles as a still camera.

Sometimes cameras are bundled with proprietary software that allows video extraction thru USB but to my knowledge it's not DV.

This is as of my current understanding, I haven't heard about DV video thru USB at this time.
 

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