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LambdaLynx · 05-12-2008, 07:12 PM

I actually found a port on my video camera that I did not know existed, and then I was able to use this device that I had recently bought (that uses a USB cable/red-white-yellow cable) to successfully transfer the video to my computer. I suppose it might have been slower via this USB method, but the way I did it, I just let the video play back on the camera, and at the same time it captured it with the program that came with this device (called 'Dazzle'). So it took about 58 minutes to transfer, because that's how much footage I had on the DV tape in the camera...but that was OK for me, as I wasn't in a rush. I've heard that the Firewire is supposed to be faster and stuff, so I guess I could figure that out eventually too, but for now I guess I've got a good enough solution.

05-12-2008, 07:12 PM	#7 (permalink)
LambdaLynx Registered User Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Minnesota, USA Posts: 72 OS: Windows XP, Service Pack 2 My System	Re: Panasonic GS80 transfer of DV to PC via Firewire cable results in 'malfunction' m I actually found a port on my video camera that I did not know existed, and then I was able to use this device that I had recently bought (that uses a USB cable/red-white-yellow cable) to successfully transfer the video to my computer. I suppose it might have been slower via this USB method, but the way I did it, I just let the video play back on the camera, and at the same time it captured it with the program that came with this device (called 'Dazzle'). So it took about 58 minutes to transfer, because that's how much footage I had on the DV tape in the camera...but that was OK for me, as I wasn't in a rush. I've heard that the Firewire is supposed to be faster and stuff, so I guess I could figure that out eventually too, but for now I guess I've got a good enough solution.