How to import a movie from a digital camera that cannot be connected
The friend who recorded my wedding has a camera that doesn't have the connection cable for the laptop, but only for the TV. Is there a way to download the movie in the Powerbook. I need to import it in iMovie because i had to mix it with another video that my mother did.
I connected the camera to the dvd recorder of the tv and I save the movie as video, but now it is a dvd and I cannot use the content of the dvd and work on it with iMovie, can I?
Thanks
Silvia
If your mother shot a video with a camcorder which can be connected to iMovie ..i.e; a 'miniDV' or 'Digital-8' camcorder which has a 'DV' or 'i.Link' digital connection.. then your friend's camcorder can probably be connected to that ..probably via a small adaptor and the cable which connects it to the TV (..which may be an 'RCA'-plug 'composite video' connection).
So your friend's video could probably be played straight onto a miniDV tape which could then be imported into iMovie. Or it may be possible to pass the "TV-style" composite video signal straight through the other (your mother's?) camcorder and directly into iMovie that way, without even needing to copy it onto another tape.
You need to find out the make and model number of your friend's camcorder - as catspaw suggests; it may be perfectly compatible with iMovie anyway! - and also the details of the one your mother used, too.
Or just look at the actual physical tapes:
..if they look like this: second picture down, on the left on this page ..that's a miniDV tape ..that WILL import straight into iMovie using a miniDV camcorder. (Here's that pic again:)
..and if one of those tapes is a 'Digital-8' tape, and looks like this then it might also be imported straight into iMovie with a suitable camcorder. (Here's that tape again:)
So you may be able to get the original footage straight into iMovie, rather than having to use an extra program like 'MPEG Streamclip' or 'Handbrake' to extract the footage off a DVD.
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