Topic: Grab mini-dv on Apple mini 2009

[asmusu2]

Hi,

I have just bought a Apple mini from 2009, that has a firewire port. Is has OSX El capitan 10.11.3 installed.

Can anyone help me with come software, so I can transfer the tapes to a computer?

Best wishes

Steen

[grawk]

What format tapes? Which playback device? Are you going to edit/master? How technical are you?

[asmusu2]

I have my Sony camcorder for home use and most tapes are recorded in long play mode.

I have bought the computer mainly for grabbing, and hope to learn to use Openshoot to edit the recordings on another computer. Most are concerts where I have taped the audio seperate and some are with 2 cameras.

I have made some mixes earlier that I am proud of, but that was with Premiere pro, and think my latest videorecording was in 2014

[GLouie]

At that time period, I could use the included Apple QuickTime Player app to record DV over Firewire. If your camcorder has a Firewire playback port, is should be as simple as connecting to the Firewire Mac port, running QuickTime Player and adjusting the few recording settings and playing back the miniDV tape. It is a realtime process, and I can't recall if you end up with a .DV or .mov file.

Then you have to transfer the file and it sounds like you would be editing on a Windows machine (Premiere). IIRC, you can get a memory stick and format it ExFAT to do a transfer. There might be a 2 or 4 GB filesize limit, I forget.

[RyanJ]

I have my Sony camcorder for home use and most tapes are recorded in long play mode.

I have bought the computer mainly for grabbing, and hope to learn to use Openshoot to edit the recordings on another computer. Most are concerts where I have taped the audio seperate and some are with 2 cameras.

I have made some mixes earlier that I am proud of, but that was with Premiere pro, and think my latest videorecording was in 2014

Good luck. These tapes have not aged well. You would have good luck if you still have the original camcorder in order to play/transfer on it.

Yes, using Quicktime would be a good option. LifeFlix also is a decent way to transfer the tapes. Premiere Pro too.