Vcr to sony minidv

[ninjamonkie]

got a sony dcr pc100 and i want to record from a vhs cassette by the video player. the manual says it,s possible but it won,t work (and it,s not very well explained). i use a scart on the video player which is connected to the audio/video on the minidv. i don,t get picture on the mididv tho... usually i would set a video player to aux but it doesn,t say anything about it in the maual. please help!

[machead]

have you tried tuning your VCR?
rig you PC100 up press play and tune your VCR until you see your footage.

[RedRaven]

Let me get this straight - you want to record FROM the VHS video recorder TO the mini-DV camcorder? Why?

It sounds like you have the gear set up to record FROM the camera TO the VCR, which is fine and should work okay. I don't think the camcorder will record from the VCR, they are not designed to do this.

[Gurdeep Samra]

I also have a PC100 and I use the same method as you BUT MINE WORKS!

I'm not being funny but maybe the camera is faulty????

[machead]

I've enabled DV-in on my camcorder.
as far as I know DV-in comes in through the Firewire .So to record from VCR you'd need a firewire card on you're vcr.
I'm not sore about this,
worth checking your manual.

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