I have just purchased a SONY DCR-HC19 handycam (MiniDV), it came with a USB cable and some software. I installed the software and plugged the cable in to one of my USB ports, the picture streaming was fine but there was no sound at all.

I have a firewire port in my PC and Pinnacle Studio software on my PC, do you think if I get a firewire cable and connect the Camcorder in that way the sound will be transferred with the pictures.

I connected my analogue camera through the USB port using a Dazzle box and the sound and picture tranfereed fine into Pinnacle, so I don't think I have a sound card problem.

cheers

Ian

Forget about USB now that you have a digital camera. Not only it will work, it's actually designed for it.


(There was even an emoticon with NO USB YES FIREWIRE I wonder it where must have went - Marc check it out ?!)

firewire all the way.
all the pictures and sound will travel through it, and everything will work fine.

As soon as you plug your camera in, Pini will autodect.

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