Driver for SONY HANDYCAM MINI DV DCR-HC37

Have you tried on allthedrivers.com?

Yes, unfortunately. I've been searching since this morning...
It's an old model, so Sony's site no longer offers its driver.

http://support.sony-europe.com/...

it's still there !!!!

Normally Windows recognizes all "digital miniDV" camcorders with FireWire (IEEE1394) connection.

To begin in video.

The starting request: “I recorded a mini DV or DVCAM cassette and I want to transfer the video from the camcorder to my computer (PC or MAC) to edit. How to configure the computer to capture video to a hard drive?”

- 1. Prerequisite. The computer must have a FireWire (or iLink or IEEE1394 or DV, it’s the same thing) connector. Either the computer already has one and it’s fine, or it doesn’t and you need to add this connector. On PC, recent quality motherboards always have at least one. If needed, installing one is actually simple and cheap (about €10–€20). Open the case and insert the FireWire-equipped card into one of the free PCI slots on the motherboard. On a laptop without FireWire, buy an adapter on the ExpressCard/PCMCIA slot on the side of the laptop.

Attention: do not use the USB cable that comes with the device to capture video on the computer. USB should only be used for transferring photos or standard-definition video. For guaranteed lossless quality, use only FireWire (or iLink or IEEE1394 or DV).

- 2. Connect the camcorder to the computer with the proper FireWire cable. Depending on the case, this cable will be 4/4 or 6/4, i.e., with a connector that fits on the camcorder side and the computer side (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 connected or when you switch it to VCR mode. At this point, what to answer 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 not already done, open your video editing software e.g. Windows Movie Maker on Windows or iMovie on Mac and look for its capture interface. If the capture software hasn’t been configured yet or has been used before for USB-based capture, you need to configure it to capture in DV. The correct Europe setting with a DV PAL camcorder is: DV PAL, 720 x 576, 25 frames per second.

- 4. Then either start the capture and let the computer transfer the captured file to a default directory, or choose to adjust settings to send the video to a different hard disk than the OS uses (e.g., Windows XP on PC). In any case, you can now control the video capture from the camcorder. You can fine-tune settings (capture the whole tape in one go, or in segments, or do rough-cutting with scene detection). Avoid capturing in low definition, as today hard drives are large enough that you don’t need to redo and re-capture in full HD.

- 5. Finally, you can start editing on the computer. Open the editing interface, move the captured sequences from the project folder or hard drive to the source window or directly on the timeline, and then edit as you like (non-linear) according to your project. In the end, you can make a DV master of your edit by sending your copy back to a DV cassette on the camcorder using the same DV connector used during capture. It is only after preserving the edit that I recommend proceeding to authoring, prior to burning the video to a DVD so it can be read on a standalone DVD player.

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