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Hi friends... new to the board. I did a search and couldn't find anything on this. Forgive me if I missed it.

I'm trying to get DVCam and MiniDV video into my resolve I have about 75 hours of documentary video that I want to digitize one final time. I have a Sony DVR-11 DVCam Deck with a 4pin Firewire out. If I convert that to USB (to into my PC). Will Resolve recognize it or do I need to send the tapes out to be digitized?

Thanks,

Brian

You are going to have a major issue trying to convert that from firewire to USB. I have been working on multiple drives lately that have firewire on them and the only way I can do this is to go from firewire 400 to firewire 800 with an adapter and then plug that adapter into my older Apple Thunderbolt Display...which has a firewire 800 plug in the back of it.

If I get time this weekend I'll pull out my DSR-11 and see if I can get it to transfer anything into Resolve.

you need a firewire 800 PCIe card
and a 4pin to fw800 cable

do not plug or unplug the cable if the PC and/or deck is on !!!!

bbielanski wrote:Hi friends... new to the board. I did a search and couldn't find anything on this. Forgive me if I missed it. I'm trying to get DVCam and MiniDV video into my resolve I have about 75 hours of documentary video that I want to digitize one final time. I have a Sony DVR-11 DVCam Deck with a 4pin Firewire out. If I convert that to USB (to into my PC). Will Resolve recognize it or do I need to send the tapes out to be digitized?

It might be easier getting an old Mac with Firewire, then using that to digitize the signal to an easily-playable digital format (like ProRes 422), and then take that file out and use it in your session.

I seem to recall there were some high-end DVCam decks that had digital SDI, digital HD-SDI, and Y/Pr/Pb analog outputs, and those you could feed into several different Blackmagic capture cards and boxes. One such deck is the Sony HVR-1500, and it'll play almost anything. The question is what kind of condition a deck this old could be in, and that's open to interpretation. The other question is whether buying a machine like this from eBay is cheaper than just paying a dubbing company to digitize the tapes for you.