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The current QuickTime app allows you to capture MiniDV video, but it applies its own There's a slight glitch on the tape or the timecode doesn't line up. Final Cut's scene detection is very eager, splitting clips every time.There was no way to turn down the audio while a tape was being imported.IMovie and Final Cut support capturing from MiniDV and write the data straight toĭisk without any modification, but they didn't work out for me for two reasons:

Premiere straight up doesn't support DV on macOS anymore, so no luck. Not much active software development going on around it. MiniDV is an old and outdated standard, so there is You can skip this section if you want to get straight to my solution. Even though that's a long chain of adapters, theĬonnection is stable and the player was recognized correctly after plugging it in. The little box in the image is a DV Line Protector that prevents power spikes fromįrying the connected hardware. You could also go directly from FireWire 800 to Mini FireWire,īut I already had a 400 -> Mini cable, so I went the longer route. The ConnectionĬonnecting Mini FireWire to a modern MacBook with only USB-C ports takes a few Luckily, a good friend of mine still has an old MiniDV player that he could lend meįor a few weeks – the Sony GV-D1000E (PAL). Used MiniDV camcorders are surprisinglyĮxpensive and I didn't want to put too much money into this. It's been a long time since I last used a camcorder and I think I threw my old oneĪway a few years ago after the screen broke.

This sounded easy at first, but there were a few hurdles to overcome: The Player

Generated clips should have the correct timestamp based on the date stored on the tapes.

Each file should be split into clips that I can later import into my Photos library.

Each MiniDV tape should be captured losslessly, 1:1 into a single file for archival.

I had three requirements for the process: Of old MiniDV cassettes and took the challenge to capture them all. They don't get lost or unreadable some time in the future. To digitize and catalog old pictures and videos that they have, to make sure

I've spent the past few weeks at my parents' house and wanted to use the time This is a part of a bigger series I'm writing on archiving media in general.