[MacDV] Sony GV-D800 video player

[James Asherman]

On Monday, November 29, 2004, at 01:02  PM, Richard Gilmore wrote:

> Hi everybody,
>
> We just got a Sony GV-D800 portable Hi-8/Digital 8mm player with a 2 
> inch
> LCD screen. It's got a FW output but iMovie doesn't see it and we 
> can't get
> any video from it into the computer. We're using a G4/ 10.3.5 and 
> iMove 3.
> It does show up in the system profiler under firewire devices but 
> that's as
> far it goes. I didn't buy it and it was just dumped on my lap to try 
> and
> figure out but I know they bought it specifically to digitize the old 
> Hi-8mm
> analog tape.
>
> Any thoughts on how this can be made to work?
>
> Thanx
>
> Richard
>
>

You might try to download a manual or something.
  Or if it has a menu system there might be something in there to turn 
on the firewire
On  the other hand it may not be able to put the analog to the digital 
output.
J