<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Most older Sony Camcorders had the ability to act as a digital converter, it seems a lot of newer cameras have omitted that feature but you can get around it by recording analog input to tape. Apparently a lot of European cameras have the feature disabled because of a taxation issue that would have a camera that can record from a analog input be taxed as a VCR with the money intended to go to the movie industry and help with piracy losses.<div><br></div><div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Gerhard </div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span> </div><br><div><div>On Aug 25, 2008, at 9:58 AM, Gordon Alley wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; ">Or you can use a digital camcorder that can do analog->digital conversion, often called "pass-through mode". You plug the output from a VCR into its AV inputs, and connect a Firewire cable from the camcorder to the Mac.<div><br></div><div>I think you'll still have the problem separating the clips, though. But bypassing the DVD step will result in better-quality video.</div><div><br></div><div>-Gordon</div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>