[Wylug-help] Video from Handycam (tape)

[Anne Wilson]

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I bought the Handycam for my husband, maybe 5 years ago, and at the
time did a 30 second clip for testing.  I remember playing with the
clip on kdenlive.  I haven't touched the camcorder since.

As my husband didn't like the Handycam, we recently gave it to our
daughter, and now I have the situation where she wants me to take off
her recording, onto a usb stick.  The problem is that my memory fails
me.  I have a strong feeling that I used a firewire lead to get the
recording onto a computer - but the only computer I have with a
firewire input is my server, which runs Scientific Linux.
Unsurprisingly, their repos don't offer kdenlive (and I can't even
remember whether kdenlive is what I used to get the recording).

VLC has settings for capturing streams, and I could use a USB
connection to this laptop - but nothing I've tried makes it see the
camcorder.

I know there are firewire to USB adapters, but if the direct USB
connection isn't making the content available, I can't see why that
adapter would - unless the firewire part provides information to the
system that USB doesn't.

If anyone can point me in the right direction I'd be hugely grateful.

Anne
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