[MacDV] 4-pin & 7-pin s-video cables

[CM McDonald]

Claire,

You want to use the iLink (=FireWire) cable to connect to your 
Powerbook.  That way, the signal stays digital all the way and there's 
no loss of quality.

If you use S video, the camera needs to convert the signal to an 
analogue format first with some loss of quality resulting.

Also, my PowerBook will not accept S video INPUT signals - it only has 
S video OUTPUT.  Yours may well be the same, so you may not be able to 
connect via S video without extra hardware.

You should also be able to connect the ProScan Hi-8 camcorder through 
the Sony miniDV camcorder to capture your old footage.

Hope this helps,

Colin McDonald


On Friday, Jul 9, 2004, at 19:56 Europe/London, Claire Hart wrote:

> I just received my powerbook, and began to install FCE.  The PDF 
> "Installing Your Software" recommends that, before you install FCE, 
> you connect and turn on your video equipment so Final Cut Express can 
> automatically detect your method of video capture.  I got my Sony 
> miniDV camcorder out and found that its S-video is 4-pin and the 
> powerbook's S-video is 7-pin.  Is my solution as simple as buying an 
> adaptor such as this one I found through google?  
> http://www.svideo.com/7pin.html
>
> I also have another cable that came with the camcorder, an i.Link 
> interface.  With this cable, do I not even need to worry about the 
> S-video?  I've lost the manual that came with the camcorder.
>
> I have a ProScan Hi-8 camcorder as well that I'd like to transfer over 
> to DVDs, so I might need that cable after all.
>
> Thanks for your advice,
> Claire
>
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