[MacDV] Re: pass through on a TRV-900?

[Thubten Kunga]

I see. That would account for why mine doesn't. I have one of the first 
ones ever sold. I had it FedExed to me the day it arrived at a dealer's 
during a trade show I was shooting.

k

On Saturday, February 8, 2003, at 04:44  PM, Derek Roff wrote:

> Will the TRV-900 do video pass through?  I think it depends on the 
> TRV-900.  This discussion came around sometime back.  I checked the 
> Sony web site at that time, and it clearly said that the TRV-900 would 
> do pass through.  And a list member reported that his would. However, 
> the one that I have used does not.
>
> My guess is that Sony added the pass through feature at some point, 
> without changing the model number.  So older TRV-900 models can't do 
> pass through, but those manufactured shortly before the TRV-950 came 
> out can do pass through.  I haven't done it, but that's the info that 
> I have found.
>
> Derek
>
> --On Friday, February 7, 2003 2:42 PM -0800 Macintosh Digital Video 
> List <MacDV at lists.themacintoshguy.com> wrote:
>
>> On Friday, February 7, 2003, at 12:43  PM, Erica Sadun wrote:
>>
>>> At 12:18 PM -0800 2/7/03, Thubten Kunga wrote:
>>>> Looks like iMovie won't import anything but tape. I hooked up the
>>>> DVD  player to my TRV-900 and the iMovie 3 sees there is "Camera
>>>> No Tape"  attached. Import ... is grey in the file menu and the
>>>> attached image  is not showing via FireWire. Does this camera not
>>>> pass through  signal? I thought it did. Maybe not. At any rate
>>>> iMovie 3 is behaving  as if a taped recording is the only way in.
>>>> I have a stand alone Sony  transcoder. I'll have to see if that
>>>> will work next.
>>>>
>>>> k
>>>
>>> I vaguely remember that the 900 doesn't do pass-through.
>>> Does anyone else know for sure?
>>>
>>> -- Erica, still smarting from your earlier post
>
>
>
> Derek Roff
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