Canon MV 430i Camcorder

Hello, there is nothing to install 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 to 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, and in that case, you need to add this connector to the computer. On PCs, 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 equipped with a firewire connector into one of the free PCI slots on the motherboard.
On a laptop without firewire, buy an adapter for the express card slot (pcmcia) the small slot on the side of the laptop

Warning: do not use the USB cable supplied with the device to capture video to the computer. The USB connection should only be used for transferring photos or low-definition video. To achieve good definition without loss, use only the 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 end on the camcorder and the other end on 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 switched to VCR mode. At this point, what should you respond to the Windows prompt on the PC? Answer: nothing. Why? Because you may need to configure the software the first time you use it. Therefore, if that hasn't been done yet, open, for example, Windows Movie Maker present on Windows or iMovie on Mac and look for its capture interface. If the capture software hasn't been configured yet or has already been used for a capture via USB connectors, it must be configured for capturing in DV. The correct configuration 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 configured directory, or you prefer to make other settings to send the video to a hard drive different from the one intended by the OS (Windows XP on PC). In all cases, you are now able to control the capture of the video from the camcorder. You can further refine the settings (capture the tape all at once, or in chunks, or by performing a rough cut with scene detection). Avoid capturing in low definition, because today hard drives are large enough that you don't need to redo the work and perform the 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 manipulate them as you wish (in a non-linear fashion) according to your imagination and your 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 the capture. Only after taking the precaution of saving the edit do I recommend moving on to authoring, prior to burning the video onto a DVD to allow playback on a standalone DVD player.
a link
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there is no other way to proceed