Where is the external mic in connection?
Just in front of the tape cassette door on the side of the camera, and behind the lens focus ring, is a plastic cover labelled “DC5V” and “MIC”. Open the cover to find a small jack on top providing 5V DC power, and a lower jack with a red plastic rim (sized for a standard 1/8″ stereo plug) which is your stereo microphone input. I can’t record from a PAL camcorder via firewire to my GL1 (NTSC) I do not think that Canon advertises the GL1 is capable of recording PAL (they sell a different camera called the XM1 in PAL format). As it turns out, the GL1 cannot display or record PAL format video properly. If you send it PAL video via firewire, it will record “something” on the tape, but it does not play back as clear video. When I tried this, playing a PAL tape from the TRV900 out via firewire to the GL1, I got a blue screen on the GL1 while recording, and video with blocks transposed, like a jigsaw-puzzle, on playback. This tape recorded in the GL1 did not play back properly in the TRV900 e
