On 19 Apr 2003 20:29:52 GMT, "DARPA" <DARPA@SpanTHIS.net> wrote:

>> You need a four pin to six pin Firewire cable & any OHCI Firewire card --

>> total package maybe US$45. ADS Pyro is as good as any. USB is _not_ for

>> video transfer, just stills -- Firewire transfer is fully supported by

>> Premiere & moves the full quality dv file from your tape to your HD.

>

>That was the missing link! Sony's manual makes no mention whatsoever about 4

>to 6 pin Firewire cables working with this camcorder. Actually they make

>more than a subtle inference that only 4 to 4 pin I.Link connections will

>work. That's what was tripping me up. Got the cable. Premiere is happy. I'm

>happy. One question, do I want to be capturing at 720x480 or 640x480? I did

>my initial capture at 720 and it looked correct in Premiere. But Windows

>Media Player plays the file at an incorrect aspect where the horizontal is

>stretched (or vertical is squished depening on your point of view). I'm

>reasonable certain I didn't accidentally capture in Widescreen sinc ethe

>source file has a .9 aspect ratio. So I'm wondering if I should be capturing

>lower than 720?

No. And it is not variable/optional...

Mini-DV (and similar) are 720x480 (NTSC) and will

look "squished" vertically played with square pixels,

or corect 4:3 played with rectangular pixels (which is

where the ".9" comes in...). Don't worry about it...;-)

BTW, 4-pin to 4-pin FireWire cables are used to connect

camcorders together, or camcorders to *some* FireWire

cards (others use 4 to 6 pin wires...).