<div dir="ltr">I've had a couple of Canon miniDV camcorders that both had pass-through (a ZR-40 and an Elura 65), and I''ve ordered a Canon HV30 (High Def) that also has the feature (according to the manual I downloaded).<br>
<br>-Gordon<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Gerhard Kuhn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gerhardk@mac.com">gerhardk@mac.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style="">Most older Sony Camcorders had the ability to act as a digital converter, it seems a lot of newer cameras have omitted that feature but you can get around it by recording analog input to tape. Apparently a lot of European cameras have the feature disabled because of a taxation issue that would have a camera that can record from a analog input be taxed as a VCR with the money intended to go to the movie industry and help with piracy losses.<div>
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<div>Gerhard </div></div><br></span> </div></font><div class="Ih2E3d"><br><div><div>On Aug 25, 2008, at 9:58 AM, Gordon Alley wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><span style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Or you can use a digital camcorder that can do analog->digital conversion, often called "pass-through mode". You plug the output from a VCR into its AV inputs, and connect a Firewire cable from the camcorder to the Mac.<div>
<br></div><div>I think you'll still have the problem separating the clips, though. But bypassing the DVD step will result in better-quality video.</div><div><br></div><div>-Gordon</div></span></blockquote></div></div>
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