You can connect the two together with a firewire cable and capture (copy) video to your computer's hard drive. or How to capture DV video if your laptop does not have a firewire port.įor DV digital camcorders (MiniDV, Digital8 etc), video is copied from the camcorder to the computer hard drive via a firewire cable.Īll DV camcorders are equipped with a firewire port, but your computer must also be equipped with a firewire port before
