Okay, I know this is probably a dumb question, but I need to get some video from a friends Sony D8 camera to my Sony miniDV camera. Can it be as simple as just getting a Firewire cable with 4-pin plugs on each end, and hooking the two cameras up in this fashion? What we've done in the past has been to transfer via VV3.
Yes, that should work fine. I've done dubs from camera to camera via firewire. I've done Sony to Sony, Canon to Canon, Sony to Canon and Canon to Sony. Firewire = perfect copy of the original.