Hi All,
Have been looking for a solution since almost 6 months both in US and India, but havent had any luck.
Short Story:
Need a convertor that can connect my Handy cam firewire out to my laptop USB 3.0/USB2.0 in. My laptop doesnot have a PCMCIA slot or a firewire port (IEEE1394 interface) (Sony VAIO VPCCB series Laptop).
Long Story:
Have about 50 odd miniDV tapes that i want to convert to mp4s - it was a SD camcorder (480p). Have a sony Handy cam (camcorder) with a Firewire interface, RCA interface, USB out. The best video quality output is from <1> Firewire <2> RCA <3> USB per the specs of the handy cam. So want to see if i can get the video out via Firewire.
My problem is that i invested in a Sony laptop with good video processing horsepower thinking that i would edit but it didnt come with a Firewire port or PCMCIA but only USB3.0/USB2.0/HDMI out. Thought it would be easy to find convertors - but hasnt been the case.
Have a USB convertor to interface with RCA on the handy cam - but dont want to use that because of lower quality output. These are some personal home videos, so want to edit it myself rather than give it to some 3rd party.
Can you please let me know if you know of a solution for this ? See that PCMCIA based firewire to USB convertors are in the market, but my laptop doesnot have one - can we use the DVD bay for it instead some how ?.
Thanks a bunch
Have been looking for a solution since almost 6 months both in US and India, but havent had any luck.
Short Story:
Need a convertor that can connect my Handy cam firewire out to my laptop USB 3.0/USB2.0 in. My laptop doesnot have a PCMCIA slot or a firewire port (IEEE1394 interface) (Sony VAIO VPCCB series Laptop).
Long Story:
Have about 50 odd miniDV tapes that i want to convert to mp4s - it was a SD camcorder (480p). Have a sony Handy cam (camcorder) with a Firewire interface, RCA interface, USB out. The best video quality output is from <1> Firewire <2> RCA <3> USB per the specs of the handy cam. So want to see if i can get the video out via Firewire.
My problem is that i invested in a Sony laptop with good video processing horsepower thinking that i would edit but it didnt come with a Firewire port or PCMCIA but only USB3.0/USB2.0/HDMI out. Thought it would be easy to find convertors - but hasnt been the case.
Have a USB convertor to interface with RCA on the handy cam - but dont want to use that because of lower quality output. These are some personal home videos, so want to edit it myself rather than give it to some 3rd party.
Can you please let me know if you know of a solution for this ? See that PCMCIA based firewire to USB convertors are in the market, but my laptop doesnot have one - can we use the DVD bay for it instead some how ?.
Thanks a bunch