I have a Toshiba Satellite Pro A100 laptop running Windows 7 Ultimate. The laptop has a 4-conductor alpha FireWire 400 socket. I have a firewire cable with one at each end. I connected one to the laptop and one to my Sony DV camcorder. The camera was unfortunately not recognised? I then was forced to purchase a 6 Pin 2 Port 1394A IEEE Cardbus Firewire PCMIA Card 54mm for DV Camcorders. The driver for the PCMIA card was automatically installed by Windows. I then connected another firewire cable (the 6-conductor into the PCMIA card) and the 4-conductor into the Sony DV camcorder. I am trying to transfer 20 mini DV video tapes onto my laptop to convert into MP4 or AVI digital files. The problem is old laptops with firewire connections are very slow. I have installed a tiny program called MinDV not even a MB in size onto my laptop. The picture on my Sony DV camcorder is perfect but when I see or record the tapes on my laptop the quality is terrible and very pixalated? Could you please please solve this problem for me? I have been trying for 2 years now to get my 15 year old travelling tapes converted into digital files with no success?
My girlfriend suggested I try joining an audio/video forum so here I am
My girlfriend suggested I try joining an audio/video forum so here I am