Driver for Sony camcorder TRV17E

Hello, there is no CD to install, Windows recognizes most miniDV camcorders.
Read my overview, you need a video editing software and a IEEE1394 input on the computer:
To get started with video.

The initial request: “I recorded a mini DV or DVCAM cassette and I am looking to transfer the video from the camcorder to my computer (PC or MAC) to edit. How should I set up the computer to capture the video on a hard drive?”

- 1. Prerequisite. The computer must be equipped with a firewire connector (or ilink or IEEE1394 or DV, it’s the same thing) *. There are two possibilities. Either the computer has one and everything is fine, or it doesn’t, in which case you need to add this connector to the computer. On PC, recent quality motherboards always have at least one. However, if necessary, installing one is actually simple to do and not expensive (10 to 20 €). You open the case and insert the card with a firewire connector into one of the free PCI slots on the motherboard.
For a laptop without firewire, buy an adapter for the express card port (pcmcia), the small slot on the side of the laptop.

Attention: do not use the USB cable supplied with the device to capture video on the computer. The USB connection should only be used for transferring photos or low-definition video. To get good quality, without loss, you must only use firewire connectors (or ilink or IEEE1394 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 a 6/4, meaning it has a connector that fits one side to the camcorder and the other side to the computer (the camcorder equipped 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 should you respond to the Windows prompt on PC? Answer: nothing. Why? Because sometimes you need to configure the software the first time you use it. Therefore, if this hasn't been done already, open something like Windows Movie Maker present on Windows or iMovie on Mac and look for the capture interface. If the capture software hasn’t been set up or has already been used for capturing via USB connectors, you must set it up for capturing in DV. The proper setting in Europe, with a DV camcorder in PAL, is: DV PAL, 720 X 576, 25 frames per second.

- 4. Next, either you start the capture and let the computer transfer the captured file to a default parameterized directory, or you prefer to make other adjustments to send the video to a different hard drive than the one intended by the OS (Windows XP on PC). In any case, you are now able to control the capture of the video from the camcorder. You can still fine-tune the settings (capture the tape in one go, or in pieces or perform a rough cut with scene detection). Avoid capturing in low definition, as today hard drives are large enough that you shouldn’t have to redo the work and capture in full definition.

- 5. Finally, you can start editing on the computer. Open the editing interface, drag the captured sequences from the bin or hard drive to the source window or directly onto the timeline, and then edit them as you wish (non-linear) according to your imagination and project. Ultimately, you can make a DV master of your edit by sending your copy back to a DV cassette of the camcorder via the same DV connector used during capture. Only after taking the precaution of saving the edit do I recommend proceeding to authoring, which is a prerequisite for burning the video onto a DVD for playback on a standalone DVD player.
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