[MacDV] Re: Digitizing Sound from SVHS recorder

[Mark M. Florida]

On 5/10/04 8:42 AM, James Asherman at jimash at optonline.net wrote:

> 
> On Monday, May 10, 2004, at 09:38  AM, E. Bond Francisco wrote:
> 
>> I'm sure this has been covered previously, but I can't find references
>> to it. I need to digitize picture and sound from a VHS tape. I'm
>> attempting to do this by connecting my tape deck -- actually a Minolta
>> Master SVHS video camcorder -- to a Sony TRV50 mini-DV camera and
>> using that as passthrough. I can see and capture Picture using
>> FCP4-HD, but I can't seem to find the sound. So my question is, does
>> the SVHS out on the Camcorder/VCR carry sound at all?
> 
> No you use the red and white RCA plugs for the sound .

There's probalby a 1/8" mini plug adapter that came with your camera, you'll
need that to pipe the sound into the camcorder.

- Mark