Pass Thru Digitizing

[Gordon B. Alley]

On Sat, 2 Aug 2003 08:08:07 -0400, Steve Robertson 
<stever at mindspring.com> wrote:
>Back when we were talking about using the "pass thru" feature on some
>camcorders to digitize video from analog sources, I wasn't paying much
>attention, because i knew mine wouldn't do that. Since then, I picked
>up a good used Sony TRV-900 and assumed it would have the pass thru
>capability.
>
>I tried it yesterday and haven't had any luck yet. If I hook up a VCR's
>output to the camera's input, I see the video from the VCR on the
>camcorder's LCD screen. But if I plug in a Firewire cable, I can't see
>the video from the VCR on the LCD screen or in the viewer screen in
>iMovie or FCE.
>
>Does this mean that the TRV-900 does not have pass thru, or is there
>some obscure menu setting that I haven't found yet?

Look for a menu option in the camera to turn on pass-through mode (it 
may be called something else). That's the way it works with my Canon 
ZR 40.

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