How do you guys transfer footage?

[Dualcam Shooter]

all you need is a firewire port. Using a capture card your transmitting actual pictures playing live. (theoretically less quality) Using fire wire your transferring 0s and 1s which is exactly whats on the tape.

 

[novelt]

No, you didn't. I was pointing out the differences in the two cabling methods to the OP.

Ah. Okay.

Speaking of OPness I used to capture with a miniDV camcorder and then one day it gave up the ghost :grin:

 

[blondie.]

I believe what Dvx Kid was saying was - using a cheap handycam that accepts MiniDV tapes to capture your footage to your computer is better than using your DVX to capture the footage in the sense that you will cut down on the amount of contact between the heads inside your DVX and the tape.

This.

...I've heard that people use their DVX to capture and haven't had any problems, but IMO it's not worth the risk. I use my old HandyCams for this.

You don't lose any quality by capturing with a crappy camcorder - the information is all written to the tape and you're just using said crappy camcorder to transfer, digitally, the information on the tape into the computer. The quality of the capture cam is irrelevant.

 

[Peter Lelievre]

computer firewire to dvx hmc150 to down convert my hd to sd footage

computer firewire to dvx hmc150 to down convert my hd to sd footage

I have and editing system that wont let me down convert my dvx hmc150 hd footage to sd so i can make a regular dvd.
Can i copy my edited hd footage from my computer back into my dvx hmc150 camera so the camera down convers my footage.

Thanks
Peter L