Canon Digital to Pc or Macbook

Eicar

Hi, i have an old canon camera still works perfect ffor taking videos etc but does anyone know how i can transfer tgese videos to my pc or macbook. I got a video grabber set in lidl one time and did everything as it says but it wont oic up the canon camera when connected.

Any help appreciated

CelticRambler

"Old Canon camera" is a bit vague! If you could tell us the model, it'd be a lot easier to give you accurate advice.

Irishphotodesk

Eicar wrote: »

Hi, i have an old canon camera still works perfect ffor taking videos etc but does anyone know how i can transfer tgese videos to my pc or macbook. I got a video grabber set in lidl one time and did everything as it says but it wont oic up the canon camera when connected.

Any help appreciated

If it’s a camera that can shoot digital video it probably isn’t old.

For most modern cameras they usually record on to a memory card - a simple method of transferring the information to a computer is to put the memory card into a card reader and into the computer.
An alternative solution may be to connect the camera by a cable to the computer to access the files.

It would be very helpful for anyone here to help if you give more information about the camera.

Eicar

Apologies, it is a canon mb400i

So no memory card, its just tapes.

I got the usb video grabber from lidl or aldi but thats not working with it, i ordered a fire wire only to realise my pc or mac has no firewire port

Im at a loss now

CelticRambler

Eicar wrote: »

Apologies, it is a canon mb400i

Are you sure? All I'm getting for that search term are various printer parts and supplies ...

Irishphotodesk

CelticRambler wrote: »

Are you sure? All I'm getting for that search term are various printer parts and supplies ...

At a guess it’s a “mv 400i “

It was probably autocorrected by phone.

This might be of help
https://kodakdigitizing.com/blogs/news/how-to-transfer-minidv-to-computer

Eicar

Sorry yes auto correct 🙈🙈🙈its mv400i

Eicar

Sorry yes auto correct 🙈🙈🙈its mv400i

CelticRambler

The good geeks on the web say that you'll never get this camera to work with a modern computer, due to old/obsolete driver incompatibilities. The solution is to use an analog video capture technique and re-record the video in a new digital format. I presume you'll need some thing like this to join the two devices; you should probably have the necessary software already installed somewhere on the computer.

Edit: make sure you find/buy an adaptor that works with PAL !