Using Firewire to capture Analog

[Deflux]

I have tried this recently and had some great experience with this, and I no longer know why I bought my capture card when I could capture my VCR thru firewire.

What I did was connect my DV Camera to the firewire card as usual. Then connect a VCR to the DV camera with this nice cable I got. Play with a few settings in the DVcam's menus and what I get is another use for camera. It converts the signal analog to digital for you quick and easily. Anyone else been doing this?

I had this $50 capture board and was getting some poor quality with it. But it seems much nice once it runs thru DVcam.

[jtor]

What I did was connect my DV Camera to the firewire card as usual. Then connect a VCR to the DV camera with this nice cable I got. Play with a few settings in the DVcam's menus and what I get is another use for camera. It converts the signal analog to digital for you quick and easily. Anyone else been doing this?

... yes, a lot of people (here) are doing that. That's a Camcorder feature known as Analog Pass-Through.

Unfortunately, not all digital camcorders have this feature.

[jane_caldwell]

I have a Sony D8 TRV330E (Pal) camcorder and I am trying to use the analog pass-through feature.

I am able to successfully use the Pass-Through feature with PAL video tapes, but with NTSC video tapes all I get is audio. No video.

Has anybody been able to successfully accomplish an NTSC pass-through on a PAL camera? Is it at all possible?

Thanks
Jane

[RHODK]

@Jane
Re-playing NTSC on a PAL camcorder is definetly not possible.