Dazzle Video Bridge

I have a Dazzle USB Video Bridge. Is there a way to import video into iMovie using this? I cannot get iMovie to recognize that it is there. Any ideas are appreciated.

FunkMaxtor,
To work with iMovie, I believe you need the FireWire version of the Dazzle Hollywood Bridge.
Matt

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Anyone come across this?
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Hi Dennis,
I have a Dazzle DV bridge as well.
It works fine. I do not have any time out problems that are not related to my camera. (the anti (tape) stretch feature normally kicks in befor e six mins on my camera).
My Camera is set to Camera mode which will out put a TV signal for dipalying on a Tele or for Recording direct to a VCR. The Dazzle then converts it to DV and sends it to the computer over firewire. (the OS recognises it without further software).
Pics and info for those who do not know what we are talking about http://www.computervice.com/Products/Dazzle/DV_Bridge/
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You soon get used to looking at yourself like it was a mirror. Your Buddies see you the right way round.
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I have just purchased Dazzle Video Creator Platinum HD after being advised to get it by a staff member at an Apple shop. When it was delivered it states on the pack it is only compatible with Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows XP. I don't have parallels on my mac and was hoping I could load dazzle without purchasing parallels and windows. I dont want to unpack Dazzle and try as I may not get a refund. Can you advise if Dazzle is compatible with Mac OSX 10.6.3 and if not what I should do to be able to use Dazzle on my MAC?
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Well, your MacBook Pro should have iMovie already installed, and that along with an analog to digital convertor is all you really need.
If you get yourself a Digital8 camcorder (I have a Sony one) you can connect the "iLink port" to your MacBook Pro with a FireWire cable, and then iMove can connect to the camera and even control the tape playback/pause options. I have done this myself a few times. When I first started converting some old "out of print" VHS tapes to DVD for my wife's classes many years ago, I purchased the Pinnacle MovieBox DV which was my analog-to-digital convertor. In fact, this old box still works today other than it only works in SD (no HD here). The Movie Box DV that I have is hard to find now, and it is no longer officially supported, but they are very solidly built and seem to last forever if you can get one. I had to go the route of the external hardware for convertign the old VHS tapes due their having MacroVision encoding on them, and the hardware I bought will ignore that.

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Hi Hooovahh,
I've done some research in our internal systems and have not found any references to AVB. I think we'll need to see if anyone else in the community has done something similar. It also appears that AVB was renamed to "Time-Sensitive Networking" in November 2012.
If it is based on UDP, you should be able to use the lower-level UDP functions in LabVIEW to do the communication.
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I was advised to purchase dazzle video creator to move analog videos from an old sony camcorder to a mac. I have purchased the dazzle and the specs seem to be for windows only. Has anyone used this product on mac?

I was advised to purchase dazzle video creator to move analog videos from an old sony camcorder to a mac. I have purchased the dazzle and the specs seem to be for windows only. Has anyone used this product on mac?

I am not certain, but I believe there is a version of Dazzle for the Mac. However, it is not the route I would chose.
You really need a proper analogue to digital converter, like the ADVC110, to connect to your camera via the usual RCA cables, and to your Mac via firewire.

Audio Video Bridging on Cisco Switches

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Hi,
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Not getting a clear input from VCR through Dazzle DV-Bridge

I have a Dazzle Hollywood DV-Bridge device so that I can take VCR tapes and eventually burn them onto a DVD. It takes the audio and video from the VCR and pumps it into my Mac via Firewire.
The problem is that no matter what tape I play in the VCR, I'm getting distortion at the bottom of the screen. What can I do about this? Anyone know? Why is it only at the bottom? I want to clear this up before I digitize and put it on a DVD.
In the following screenshot, you will see what I'm talking about right below the "import" button.
http://tinyurl.com/29clta
Thanks!

Yes, I see what you mean, and I get this quite often. It is partly the timecode track, partly an audio (mono) track.
I have learned to ignore it in iMovie as it never appears in the finished DVD.
Considering how cheap a blank DVD is, try it out!

Importing JVC MiniDV through Dazzle Hollywood Bridge - Trouble!

I have a project that is due tomorrow! This is what has happened. I plug my JVC camera into my Dazzle bridge, connect the bridge to my iMac through firewire. Next, I open iMovie, and normally it will bring up the video capture screen and tell me that there is no device control. However, at least once I was able to import video manually without any trouble. But now, even when I use the Pass Through on the bridge, press Play on the screen(import screen in iMovie), click import, tell it to add it as a new event, and then click Import again and press play on my camcorder, the little red record light will come on but the timer next to it stays at zero - even though my video is playing on the camcorder. I hope this isn't too confusing, but would love any direction!!!

Hi
*Some general - unsorted thoughts about this Camera = AD-box in this Case.*
Test another FW-Cable.
FireWire - Sure not using the accompany USB-Cable but bought a 4-pin to 6-pin FW one ?
Test Your Camera on another Mac so that DV-in still works OK
Toogle in iMovie pref: Play-back via Camera (on<->off some times)
Free space on internal (start-up) hard disk ? Please specify the amount of free space.
(Other hard disks don't count)
Delete iMovie pref file may help sometimes. I rather start a new account, log into
this and have a re-try.
Using WHAT ? :
• Mac OS - X.5.4 ?
• QuickTime version ? (This is the heart in both iMovie and FinalCut)
• iMovie 8 (7.1.?) ?
• iMovie HD 6 (6.0.4/3) ?
Does Your Camera work on another Mac ?
Sorry to say it is to easy to turn the 6-pin end of the FW-cable 180 deg wrong.
This is lethal to the A/D-chip in the Camera = needs an expensive repair.
(Hard to find out - else than import/export to another Mac ceased to work
everything else is OK eg recording and playback to TV)
Other ways to import Your miniDV tape:
Use another Camera. There where tape play-back stations from SONY
but they costed about 2-4 times a normal miniDV Camera.
If Your Camera works on another Mac. Make an iMovie movie project here and move it
over to Your Mac via an external hard disk.
(HAS TO BE Mac OS Exchange formatted - USB/DOS/FAT32/Mac OS Exchange WILL NOT DO)
(Should be a FireWire one - USB/USB2 performs badly)
from LKN 1935:
Hi Bengt W, I tried it all, but nothing worked. Your answer has been helpfull insofar as all the different trials led to the conclusion that there was something wrong with my iMovie software. I therefore threw everything away and reinstalled iMovie from the HD. After that the exportation of DV videos (there has not been any problem with HDV videos) to my Sony camcorders worked properly as it did before. Thank you. LKN 1935
from Karsten:
in addition to Bengt's excellent '9 yards of advice' ..
camera set to 'Play' , not rec/computer/etc.?
camera not on battery, but power-line?
did your Mac 'recognize' this camera before...?
a technical check:
connect camera, on, playback, fw-connected...
click on the Blue Apple, upper left of your screen ..
choose 'About../More..
under Firewire.. what do you read..?
Yours Bengt W

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I can't get my Dazzle Hollywood Bridge to output timeline to TV monitor

Pretty much as the title says.
All I get on screen are variations on a black & white picture from a normal solid picture to various moving stripes & checkerboards, all in black & white.
I did get it to work very briefly for about ten minutes the other day & I had a moving colour picture but then I changed a setting & it's gone back to being as mentioned above.
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I gather that Dazzle don't have a great reputation.

Thanks for that.
I've managed to get my Dazzle bridge to display to the TV but it still seems very flaky.
Basically, I switched my video out put to "non-controllable device" & suddenly, up came colour on the TV! Woo-hoo!!
Then, my e-mail went ping so I switched apps to check my messages & when I went back it was a black & white checkerboard again! D'oh!!
So I fiddled around with plugs & settings a bit & suddenly, when I went on to "basic firewire" up came colour again! Woo-hoo!!
This happened several times & there doesn't - in my case at least - seem to be a setting that's the "right" one, just that forcing the bridge to do something different seems to kick it in to action.
A pain in the posterior, to be sure, but at least I'm able to get some work done now.
Just to confirm, I'm sending all frames, mirror on desktop is on, refreshing the AV has no effect (by which I mean that's not the thing that's making it work again each time) & I have the external hard drive connected to the Firewire 800 output, the Dazzle bridge connected to the Firewire 400 output & a single yellow (is that composite?) connector going to my TV with audio set to default so that it comes out of the laptop speakers.

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I have an old Pinnacle Dazzle digital video creator 90.
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When I plug it in, nothing happens.
Morten

Hi C
Sorry You had to wait. Took a while to make a test environment (iLife6 was
late).
Now I've tested my Canopus ADVC-300 (have no 110) and Mac OS X.4.5
QT 7.0.4 and iMovie 6.0.1.
Result: Worked like a Charm.
If You consider buying a new one. Look at the 300 - and more so if You have
old VHS or other analog tapes. They often have drop-outs and I get the
feeling of that this one fix it one way or another. I'm very impressed.
Yours Bengt W

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Hey Guys!
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That should have read, It will NOT recognize my Dazzle device or either of 2 HP DVD burners.

TNTerri
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Do a free ccleaner run through to get rid of leftovers from incomplete installs reinstalls
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I have been trying to import VHS video into iMovie via a Hollywood Dazzle bridge. Did not have trouble until I upgraded to mavericks. I have a mac book pro, 10.9.1, iMovie 10.0.2. Says it is recording, but when I go to check, it says the file is empty.

I have been trying import VHS video into iMovie via a Hollywood Dazzle bridge. I have been successful doing this in the past, but now it is not working. I have a mac book pro, 10.9.1, (mavericks), iMovie 10.0.2. Everything in iMovie looks like it is working. It reads "recording" in the upper left hand corner of the pane while the video is playing. When I stop the process to check on my clip it says that the file is empty. The only thing that has changed since I did it successfully is that I upgraded to mavericks from whatever I had previously. My system is about one year old. Any suggestions?

Hey, Clinton,
     Thanks for your help! I was able to go to iMovie 9.0.9 and import video. I was still curious as to why it didn't work in version 10.0.2, so I contacted Apple tech support. They were't sure at first as to why it wouldn't work, so they had me delete iMovie 10.0.2 and then re-install it just to see if something had gone wrong when it upgraded. That didn't change anything. In the end, they determined that 10.0.2 doesn't support the Hollywood Dazzle DV bridge. But I have a workaround path from them that I will share so that it's possible to import to 9.0.9, then move it to 10.0.2.
     1. Open iMovie 9 (finder/applications/iMovie 9.0.9
     2. Import from Dazzle Bridge to iMovie 9, note which event you are importing the clips into
     3. Close iMovie 9
     4. Open iMovie 10 (probably in the dock)
     5. File/Import Media...navigate to home(this was my name, on the left side of iMovie, under Favorites)/Movies/iMovie events. Find the event folder that contains your Dazzle clips (tip-try sorting by date modified to look at recent events.)
     6. Select the clips and import. Click the blue "Import Selected" button on the bottom right.
You may get a message that some files cannot be imported. Click continue import. It's a little glitchy. It imports your clip, and also makes a copy of it, too. On the copy, the audio is normal, but the video is choppy. In any case, you would delete the copy, anyway.
Hope this additional information helps somebody else. Thanks again, Clinton for helping me!

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