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mweber wrote on 2/8/2003, 7:46 PM
If your camera has AV to DV conversion, then this should work:

Connect your friend's camera to your's with AV cables, then connect your camera to your computer with a Firewire cable. Turn off DV device control in VV. Press play on your friend's camera. The signal should pass through your camera right into the computer.
EPsymp wrote on 2/9/2003, 10:12 AM
I'll try it, thanks!
EPsymp wrote on 2/9/2003, 10:25 AM
My camera just kept doing its own thing. What mode should i have them in?
mikkie wrote on 2/9/2003, 10:34 AM
I think a lot depends on whatever brand/model of DV camera you've got, so you might want to post those details here so someone might be able to give you more specific advice.

Other then that, there is often some sort of VCR mode that allows your camera to tape or record an incoming audio/video signal (I've sometimes seen the directions for this buried in the camera manual under dubbing). Please forgive if it sounds obvious (don't want to ofend or anything), but make sure the jacks on your camera that your friend's camera is connected to are for input - I've seen a few cameras where the on camera jacks were for output, & you needed some sort of special cable to accept analog input.

luck
mike

EPsymp wrote on 2/9/2003, 10:45 AM
It says A/V in/out so i assume it would be both ways (no offense taken). I have it on VCR mode but it doesn't seem to realize it's connected to anything. The VHS camera has a hole that says "digital" and one that says JLIP. Would i want to use either of those? I have a canon mini dv, i could try to find the manual if you want more information on it. Thanks for helping
stepfour wrote on 2/9/2003, 1:59 PM
Make sure your friends camera is on and in the PLAY mode when you start recording on your Canon. Also, check to see if your friends camera has some sort of DUB MODE setting in it. If so, you want that set to OUT. Does your friends camera output properly when hooked to a TV?
pb wrote on 2/9/2003, 4:13 PM
If the VHS-C camera is JVC go to Radio Shack or Walmart and get the VHS adapter for playing mini VHS tapes in a normal VHS machine. Your cabling problems become a non-issue. The JVC variety cameras use a weird interface that converts rf to line out. Time for your friend to dump the clunker and get at least a digital 8, very affordable in the US.

Peter
fuzzzzy wrote on 2/9/2003, 4:15 PM
HI.
While on that subject...what is the bst way to record back to the VCR that does not have a digital input ?

fuzzzzy
stepfour wrote on 2/9/2003, 4:47 PM
"what is the bst way to record back to the VCR that does not have a digital input?"

If it doesn't have digital inputs then it should, at least, have analog (RCA type) inputs on it, or did you mean it has no inputs other than the VHF cable coax and the UHF screws to hook great grannies TV up to it?
EPsymp wrote on 2/9/2003, 4:51 PM
It is a JVC. This is turning out to me more time than i had planned. Well i'll send him to radio shack to spend his money on the adaptor. Thanks a lot for all the help
fuzzzzy wrote on 2/17/2003, 3:40 PM
no..it has no DV input !
Yes it has RCA inputs...
what format must I render to, to be able to record it back to a VHS tape via RCA connections ?

thanks fuzzzzy