How do I transfer video from a DV tape onto a PC without a Firewire port?
With older PCs there is no way to connect a DV or MiniDV camcorder directly. But if you have a DVD recorder underneath your living room TV, you can copy video from a DV camcorder onto a blank DVD and you can put the resulting DVD into your PC’s DVD drive. Next, just copy the entire VIDEO_TS folder from the DVD you made onto your PC’s hard drive. This folder will contain one or more files that end in .VOB. These are actually just very high quality MPEG2 video files but they have a maximum size of 1Gbyte. Usually one hour of video will occupy two or three DVD VOB files. You can then feed the VOB files into the FamilyCam Uploader which will convert them straight to H264-encoded MP4 video in the right format for FamilyCam and it will then upload the MP4 video into your FamilyCam account. How do I transfer video from a DV tape onto my Mac? All Macs come with a Firewire port and a copy of Apple iMovie. It’s very easy to use iMovie to capture video from a DV camcorder into iMovie. Once you’ve
