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Can’t find firewire port on camcorder?

January 2nd, 2010

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I have a PANASONIC camcorder. It’s model is vdr-m50pp. It keeps video on a mini dvd. i just bought firewire cord. it’s 4 years old, help!

By: Griffin

Tags: Firewire Port, Panasonic, Panasonic Camcorder

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One Response to “Can’t find firewire port on camcorder?”

1. Little Dog Says:
   January 2nd, 2010 at 14:13

   The only consumer camcorders that require a firewire cable to connect the DV port of the camcorder to the firewire port of the computer for video transfer are all miniDV tape based camcorders and a few certain JVC hard drive camcorders.

   Camcorders that store video to DVD claim to be able to transfer using USB, but I’ve never been able to do that with friends’ DVD camcorders (I won’t waste my money on one because the video is that bad). Anyway, the only method I have successfully used to transfer video from DVD based camcorders is by taking the disc out of the camcorder, using a drawer loading DVD optical drive connected to my computer and using a DVD ripper like HandBrake to convert that DVD video to a file format the video editor likes… .AVI, .WMV, .DV for Microsoft MovieMaker; .MOV, .MP4, .DV for Apple iMovieHD.

   NEVER put a small or odd sized/shaped disc in a slot loading computer DVD optical drive - the disc will get scratched and the optical drive can be broken.

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