Driver Camcorder GR-D225E

Good evening, for your computer, you need a FireWire input, which looks like a USB but is thicker by 1 mm and narrower by 1 mm. Read this: if it's a laptop that doesn't have it, you'll need to use a 32-bit PCMCIA adapter with FireWire (IEEE 1394). The USB port is not suitable and having a PCMCIA port means there is a slot on the side of the laptop:
To start with video.

The initial request: "I recorded a mini DV or DVCAM tape and I'm looking to transfer the video from the camcorder to my computer (PC or MAC) for editing. How do I set up the computer to capture the video onto a hard drive?"

- 1. Prerequisite. The computer must be equipped with a FireWire connector (or iLink or IEEE 1394 or DV, it's the same thing) *. It can be either: the computer has one and everything is fine, or it doesn't have one, in which case you need to add this connector to the computer. On PCs, recent quality motherboards always have at least one. But if needed, installing one is actually simple and inexpensive (10 €). You open the case and insert the card equipped with a FireWire connector into one of the free PCI slots on the motherboard. Warning: do not use the USB cable included with the device to capture the video on the computer. The USB connection should only be used for transferring photos or low-definition video. For good definition, without loss, you only use FireWire connectors (or iLink or IEEE 1394 or DV).

- 2. Connect the camcorder to the computer with the appropriate FireWire cable. Depending on the case, this cable will be a 4/4 or 6/4, meaning it has a connector that fits one end on the camcorder and the other on the computer (the camcorder with DV IN uses the same DV connector to transfer videos (OUT) and receive them (IN)).

- 3. The computer recognizes the camcorder when it is connected or when it is switched to VCR mode. At this stage, what to respond to the Windows prompt on PC? Answer: nothing. Why? Because you may need to configure the software the first time you use it. Therefore, if it hasn't already been done, open your capture/editing software and look for its capture interface. If the capture software hasn't already been configured or if it has been used for a capture via USB connectors, you need to set it up to capture in DV. The correct setting in Europe, with a DV camcorder in PAL, is: DV PAL, 720 X 576, 25 frames per second.

- 4. Then, either you start the capture and let the computer transfer the captured file to a default configured directory, or you prefer to make other settings to send the video to a different hard drive than the one provided by the OS (Windows XP on PC). In any case, you are now able to control the video capture from the camcorder. You can still refine your settings (capture the tape all at once, in pieces, or perform a rough-cut with scene detection). Avoid doing a low-definition capture because today’s hard drives are large enough that there’s no need to redo the job and capture in full definition.

- 5. Finally, you can start editing on the computer. Open the editing interface, transfer the captured sequences from the bin or hard drive to the source window or directly onto the timeline, and then adjust them to your liking (in a non-linear way) according to your imagination and project. Ultimately, you can make a DV master of your edit by sending a copy back to a DV tape of the camcorder, via the same DV connector used during capture. It is only after taking the precaution of saving your edit that I recommend proceeding to authoring, prior to burning the video to a DVD for playback on a DVD player.

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The JVC GR-D225E, connected via FireWire, is automatically recognized by iMovie on Mac OS Snow Leopard. No driver needed.