[MacDV] Re: Digitizing Sound from SVHS recorder

[James Asherman]

On Monday, May 10, 2004, at 01:28  PM, Mark M. Florida wrote:

> 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
>
>

And just to be perfectly clear it is this 1/8th mini plug adapter that 
ends with the RCA plugs of which I spoke. So you use the SVHS and the 
1/8th with the red and white and leave the yellow hanging loose. 
Exactly the same setup for regular VHS.
Jim