[MacDV] Re: Can the Sony DVMC-DA1 be made to work with iMovie 3?

[Erica Sadun]

Have you tried importing through your DA-1 to HackTV?

-- Erica


At 11:26 AM -0800 8/18/03, Jeff Fay wrote:
>I think the main difference between the DA-1 and DA-2 is that the 
>DA-2 added LAN-C machine control so that the camera control signals 
>sent by firewire can be translated into LAN-C so that a camcorder 
>that uses LAN-C can receive commands.
>
>I note that the DA-2 is supported in iMovie 3; the DA-1 is not - 
>although the iMac site has the quote in my first message (also below 
>in the quoted part), so Apple either needs to correct their website 
>or make the DA-1 work with iMovie 3 (the latter would be my 
>preference...).
>
>As another aside, the DA-1 works well with Final Cut Pro 3. If it 
>works with FCP, why can't it work with iMovie?
>
>Jeff
>
>Kunga wrote:
>
>>I use a Sony DVMC-DA2. I wonder what the difference is. DA1 must be 
>>really old as I have had this DA2 for many years.
>>
>>kunga10 (AIM)
>>kunga47 (Yahoo Messenger with Cross-Platform dial-up Video sans 
>>audio  on Macs)
>>
>>On Monday, August 18, 2003, at 09:31  AM, Jeff Fay wrote:
>>
>>>I've been unable to get my Sony DVMC-DA-1 media converter to work 
>>>with  iMovie 3 or iMovie 2 (OS X) either on my 450dp or on an 
>>>800mhz iMac.  Both are running 10.2.6.
>>>
>>>To quote Apple's website @ http://www.apple.com/imac/dv.html:
>>>
>>>"And if you have a stack of home videos in VHS format and wish you 
>>>could use clips from them on your DV-model iMac, you can do that, 
>>>too:  you can get a convertor box that lets you convert VHS-format 
>>>videos to  digital video. It's as simple as that. (The Sony 
>>>DVMC-DA1 
>>><http://www.sel.sony.com/SEL/consumer/handycam/accessories/i- 
>>>dvmcda1.html> is one such converter box. It converts analog video 
>>>to  DV <http://www.apple.com/dv/>, converts DV to analog, adapts 
>>>non-DV  camcorders, and supports iMovie.)"
>>
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