Recording differently?

[Amerikan123]

Hey, for the past few days someone has been throwing glass in my driveway. I dont have any enemies and i know that noone i know has put it there as a joke or otherwise. I dont have a DVX but i have a Sony DCR VX2100, being that mini dv tapes are only 60 minutes is there a way i could hook my camera to my VCR and record straight to a VHS Tape? Or any other way i could tape for an elongated amount of time? Thanks everyone.

 

[Kevin Dorsey]

Use the component cable from your camera, plug it into the input of the vcr. I'm not familiar with the VX but I would think any standby mode could be turned off, so the camera can stay on for the time needed.

 

[ChrisByrnes]

VCR tapes are not that much longer. Use a computer with firewire connection as your capture device. There are software programs (with 30 day trials) that will record only when movement is detected. I used it when someone was keying my car. I had the advantage of a Panasonic DVC30 that can use infrared, so it worked very, very well indeed. I don't have the software vendor name off-hand. Google.