Gunner Asch wrote:
At a yard sale last weekend..I bought a minty Sony DCR-TRV330 video
camera.
For $1.00

No idea if it worked or not..but nothing appeared to be bashed or
beaten. It was missing the charger and the battery and all the cables.
For a buck..what the hell. It was minty minty and came in a decent
camera case with some bits and pieces...Radio Shack FM Transmitter..no
receiver of course...anyone need it? 49.890 Mhz

So I ordered the battery ($14) and the charger ($14) from ebay last
Sunday..and it all came today. The camera works perfectly. Records,
plays back, edits...the super low light video was tons of fun outside
tonight. Like having a NOD G

Now...the big question is..how to I upload a video out of the camera
and transfer it into a computer?

I dont have a video capture card (yet)...I dont think..in all my
Stuff..so I assume I need one of those, right?

The camera has a USB port..and I do have a cable to fit..but when I
plug it into the computer..nothing shows up. Im assuming that it ONLY
works with the Sony media stick (memory thingy)..which I dont have.
A bit of snooping on the 'net gave me that idea...I think.

There is a DV in/out "usb" plug and beside it is a "LANC" plug...no
idea what the hell those are for. Anyone?

LANC is for controlling stuff like zoom, record and play over a cable.
it's used to control cameras up on booms and stuff like that. You don't
need it for normal stuff.


As I was typing this..I found the manual on the Sony site....so it
answered some of the questions. Looks like I need another 2
cables..the AV cable and a i.link cable..and some sort of video
capture card/adapter that will accept the i.link cable..or the
standard video capture card

Is S Video better than the plainjane AV output? Looks like I need an
S video cable too.

svidoe is better, but use the firewire if you can, since it control play
and record on the camera from the pc.



Damnit

Is "i.link" Sonys verson of Firewire?

yes.

get a firewire card and cable and windows should talk to that camera OK.