Is this product what I want to hook up my sony video camera to my computer and download what I have videoed on my camera to my computer and then be able to burn it to a dvd?
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Probably not. I've had two Sony camcorders, and both have come with software and cables for importing video from the camera onto a computer. Using the appropriate software and connection that Sony provided will be much faster for importing video, as this device is only capturing the signal as fast as it is played (like a VCR). My older camcorder connected to a firewire port (also known as IEEE 1394) which is not always found in newer laptops/pcs, so if you were desperate, you could use the ION. My newer one uses PMB software and the camera connects to a USB 2.0 port. In some cases, you can save to a memory stick and then use a card reader on your pc for the memory stick. Good luck Diane Probably not. I've had two Sony camcorders, and both have come with software and cables for importing video from the camera onto a computer. Using the appropriate software and connection that Sony provided will be much faster for importing video, as this device is only capturing the signal as fast as it is played (like a VCR). My older camcorder connected to a firewire port (also known as IEEE 1394) which is not always found in newer laptops/pcs, so if you were desperate, you could use the ION. My newer one uses PMB software and the camera connects to a USB 2.0 port. In some cases, you can... » Read More Probably not. I've had two Sony camcorders, and both have come with software and cables for importing video from the camera onto a computer. Using the appropriate software and connection that Sony provided will be much faster for importing video, as this device is only capturing the signal as fast as it is played (like a VCR). My older camcorder connected to a firewire port (also known as IEEE 1394) which is not always found in newer laptops/pcs, so if you were desperate, you could use the ION. My newer one uses PMB software and the camera connects to a USB 2.0 port. In some cases, you can save to a memory stick and then use a card reader on your pc for the memory stick. Good luck Diane « Show Less
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In theory yes, but I could not get it to work. Sounds good but there is zero support from the company. I sent mine back. Too bad because this product has potential . . . but needs some technical support behind it.
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If your camera can be hooked up to a TV and you can play back video from it, then yes. But it's not as simple as downloading, you have to capture the video with the software, basically playing it back using the included software on your computer and recording that. The resulting file can be edited and burned to DVD.
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You shouldn't need this at all to connect your handycam to your PC. There should be a USB or Firewire cable that came with your camera that connects right to your computer. Then you can open up Windows Live Movie Maker (download it if you don't have it, it's free) and import the video right from the camera. Only reason you'd need this is if for some reason you don't have that cable or your computer doesnt have a firewire port and that's the only thing the camera uses to connect to the PC. This is an analog solution and it's never going to be as good quality as the video you can get by copying the contents of the camera right to the computer. You shouldn't need this at all to connect your handycam to your PC. There should be a USB or Firewire cable that came with your camera that connects right to your computer. Then you can open up Windows Live Movie Maker (download it if you don't have it, it's free) and import the video right from the camera. Only reason you'd need this is if for some reason you don't have that cable or your computer doesnt have a firewire port and that's the only thing the camera uses to connect to the PC. This is an analog solution and it's never going to be as good quality as the video you can get by... » Read More You shouldn't need this at all to connect your handycam to your PC. There should be a USB or Firewire cable that came with your camera that connects right to your computer. Then you can open up Windows Live Movie Maker (download it if you don't have it, it's free) and import the video right from the camera. Only reason you'd need this is if for some reason you don't have that cable or your computer doesnt have a firewire port and that's the only thing the camera uses to connect to the PC. This is an analog solution and it's never going to be as good quality as the video you can get by copying the contents of the camera right to the computer. « Show Less
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Yes, it should work quite well if you get all the settings correct (in the Control Panel Sound app make sure the "Recording" tab has the "Line" setting turned on).
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Probably not. I've had two Sony camcorders, and both have come with software and cables for importing video from the camera onto a computer. Using the appropriate software and connection that Sony provided will be much faster for importing video, as this device is only capturing the signal as fast as it is played (like a VCR). My older camcorder connected to a firewire port (also known as IEEE 1394) which is not always found in newer laptops/pcs, so if you were desperate, you could use the ION. My newer one uses PMB software and the camera connects to a USB 2.0 port. In some cases, you can save to a memory stick and then use a card reader on your pc for the memory stick. Good luck Diane
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Yes, provided you can play through the output of your camera to the input on ION. Open the capture software provided with the ION, tell it to record/capture, then save the captured material into a video format file on your computer, then burn to disc. It should work fine if the camera can use the ION input cable format.
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Yes and yes as long as you can play the tape on your player (VCR, camcorder, DVD player, Tivo, and so on). It's not media or cassette type that is important. As this product comes with a digitizer, you can capture almost everything that has video output via RCA (yellow, red, & white) or S-video. Some camcorders only have RCA with yellow (video) and white (sound), which should work as well. I tried capturing PS3 game playing as video on this product, and it worked wonderfully.
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That's a tricky question as you are really talking about "Will my video card allow input cables from my camcorder?" The other option is whatever your camcorder records with (tape, disc, what have you) is there a way to transfer that data to the PC/MAC. Will it burn in HD? Yes absolutely. To a DVD? Not truly. You would need to have a blank BLURAY disc to get the real HD quality I think you might be looking for. The real trick is getting it off your camcorder. :) Hope this helps and if wanting some idea's try this string in Google "move video from camcorder to computer" without the quotes of course. :) Best of luck! That's a tricky question as you are really talking about "Will my video card allow input cables from my camcorder?" The other option is whatever your camcorder records with (tape, disc, what have you) is there a way to transfer that data to the PC/MAC. Will it burn in HD? Yes absolutely. To a DVD? Not truly. You would need to have a blank BLURAY disc to get the real HD quality I think you might be looking for. The real trick is getting it off your camcorder. :) Hope this helps and if wanting some idea's try this string in Google "move video from camcorder to computer"... » Read More That's a tricky question as you are really talking about "Will my video card allow input cables from my camcorder?" The other option is whatever your camcorder records with (tape, disc, what have you) is there a way to transfer that data to the PC/MAC. Will it burn in HD? Yes absolutely. To a DVD? Not truly. You would need to have a blank BLURAY disc to get the real HD quality I think you might be looking for. The real trick is getting it off your camcorder. :) Hope this helps and if wanting some idea's try this string in Google "move video from camcorder to computer" without the quotes of course. :) Best of luck! « Show Less
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Yes but you might need an adaptor. Contact Sony. You download right from the camcorder or take out the sd card and put it into your computer just like any other sd card. They work in Mac and pc
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I have some old VHS tapes from Europe (PAL system) which I want to convert to DVD. Would this software work for such a purpose.
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I purchased a device from Roxio to copy VHS tapes to my laptop and then to burn them onto a DVD, it's a connector and some software. It's pretty seamless, you can copy the tape directly to a DVD or copy it to your computer and then burn the disc. If you have an s-video connector that would be the best way to do it as the Roxio device supports it. I didn't have one but an ordinary cable works fine.
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It has the mini usb which is the same you find on most GPS chargers or Playstation 3/4 controller chargers. It's video and stereo output. If by chance your camera can take information, by the port on it that matches this mini usb plug, and record to it's hard drive or disc then I would say it could work. It depends on your VCR as well. I'm not sure if they had the input and output plugs as we see on DVD players today. I would say it's worth the try, but for a simple experiment, assuming you do not have a GoPro 3 and above, if it works try to find an off brand replica of this cable to save a little money. Or buy it and resell back on here. It has the mini usb which is the same you find on most GPS chargers or Playstation 3/4 controller chargers. It's video and stereo output. If by chance your camera can take information, by the port on it that matches this mini usb plug, and record to it's hard drive or disc then I would say it could work. It depends on your VCR as well. I'm not sure if they had the input and output plugs as we see on DVD players today. I would say it's worth the try, but for a simple experiment, assuming you do not have a GoPro 3 and above, if it works try to find an off brand replica of this cable to save a... » Read More It has the mini usb which is the same you find on most GPS chargers or Playstation 3/4 controller chargers. It's video and stereo output. If by chance your camera can take information, by the port on it that matches this mini usb plug, and record to it's hard drive or disc then I would say it could work. It depends on your VCR as well. I'm not sure if they had the input and output plugs as we see on DVD players today. I would say it's worth the try, but for a simple experiment, assuming you do not have a GoPro 3 and above, if it works try to find an off brand replica of this cable to save a little money. Or buy it and resell back on here. « Show Less
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You can either connect the camcorder to a computer using IEEE wire, I think they used to call it fire wire, and is the wire with a smaller connection than USB. Or you can use the other cables with the red, white and yellow ends and connect to a dvd or vhs recorder. All the wires come with the camcorder. The same wires you would use to connect to a tv to watch your tapes on the tv. You can access the owners manual for instruction at I think the Sony Support web site.
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Yes, this device allows copying from a VHS tape to your computer and then to a DVD.It's a 3 or 4 step process, but it does work!
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I had no problems importing videos to my pc. You probably need to download a Sony driver.
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Hi Caitlin, Sony CCDTRV57 Analog Camcorder can't be connected to a computer to transfer or copy videos recorded by it. -Vincent
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You can make regular dvd's with this camcorder. Since my computer is slow. I purchased a Sony DVD Direct Burner and it works great. With the burner I do lose the ability to edit the videos and it burns in real time....if your video is an hour it takes an hour to burn. The quality is fantastic and it also can burn slide shows from various memory cards.
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Hi, I think what you will need is a DVD-R for your cam! The cd-r won't hold the visuals on it, strictly audio:)
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If you have the camera there is transfer boxes you can buy for about $30, I'm sure on amazon too. You just plug audio/video cables in and transfer anything to the computer, then burn it on DVD. I have one and it works great. If you don't have the camera there should be something that just plays the tapes, may be hard to find though. Mini DV camcorders are obsolete now, should be able to find one pretty cheap or on eBay to use for transferring tapes.
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I can't say for sure if the software will work, but that won't matter, if you're planning on getting some kind of extra software you will be fine. You'll be able to get the video on to the computer no problem.
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Just install software and connect the device. follow the instruction. You have to download your videos to software and edit it and save it to DVD or computer for future use.
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I have done several recording from vhs to dvd without any problems so maybe if you could provide me a few more details I could steer you in the right direction. The instruction manual is quite complicated and it is easy to miss a important step so tell me what you did any I'll try and sort out the problem. If you have the instruction manual list the steps found in it so I can be sure you are doing the right things.