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According to the manual the cable is a Samsung AD39-00119A. However, even if you find it you shouldn't use it. Video captured over composite cables is low quality. For MiniDV tapes you should use the top port on the camcorder which is a Firewire port. You need a 4 to 6 pin firewire cable and a Firewire PCIE card. I believe it may also be possible to go from Firewire to thunderbolt by using a Firewire 400 to... Source: 10 months ago
If you're on Windows, you can add Firewire to a desktop via a PCIe expansion card - Startech make good ones. Capture can be done with Premiere or WinDV. Source: about 1 year ago
Yes, you can. On Windows, you can use WinDV or Scenalyzer to capture through FireWire. Source: over 1 year ago
I think what I would do is try one of the other DV capture utilities. It's not like the quality is going to be any different - the results will be identical. The question is: do any of these still work? Well to my utter surprise, the WinDV site still exists and the software does apparently work on at least Windows 10. So I think I'd try that first. Source: over 1 year ago
What software are you using? Give WinDV a try, captureflux or ScenalyzerLive. Source: over 1 year ago
The software I used for this part is called WinDV. Here, I just had to specify a video source (my camcorder), a destination file and hit capture. WinDV automatically saves one video file in .avi format for each scene that is on the tape and names it with the date when it was shot. So if your camcorder's date settings were correct when you shot the video, you have a very easy way of sorting the files by date and time. Source: over 1 year ago
On Windows there's also the very simple WinDV tool. Source: over 1 year ago
My laptop is a dualboot Mac/Win Macbook Pro, so I booted into Windows and used WinDV to capture the same tape, same cables, same camera, same everything. WinDV captured the tape with no error at the same point in the tape, but in AVI format. No clue what caused the error using iMovie, anyone have a guess? Source: about 2 years ago
Most of those cameras connected to a PC via firewire. So if you have that kind of connection on your PC you can probably use it as a webcam. However, you can't just connect the device and copy files you'll need capture software. Something like WinDV or dvGrab if you don't have access to something like Adobe Premiere. Source: almost 3 years ago
For anyone trying to transfer MiniDV tapes on Windows, I recommend the super-lightweight freeware WinDV: http://windv.mourek.cz/ For some reason it worked a lot better for me than the commercial video capture software I tried. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago
Http://windv.mourek.cz/ This minimal app, WinDV, still works on Windows 10! I believe it captures .dv natively and might need to be transcoded for some NLEs. Source: about 3 years ago
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