Transferring Video from the Sony Handycam to the Creation Station

Mr. Jim BerryCherokee County School District

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Connect the small end of the firewire cable to the back of the camera

behind the flap named “DV”

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Connect the larger end of the firewire cable to the firewire port on the Creation Station,

or to the firewire port on the side of your laptop

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Turn on the power to the camcorder and set the mode to “Play/Edit”

You’ll be able to use the touch screen on the camera to rewind to set the starting

point for your capture4

The following window will appear:

In this tutorial, we’ll use MovieMaker. Advanced users might want to let

Adobe Premiere Elements capture the video5

When this window appears, you can select a location and set the filename for your video

Important: For now, keep the default location as “My Videos” because this step requires that you save to the

local C: (hard drive).

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This window will allow you to adjust video quality settings. We’ll accept the default

setting and click “Next”

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Click “Start Capture,” then press the play button on the camcorder’s touch

screen

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Click FINISHNote: In Movie Maker, you can select all of the

individual video clips (see below) then click the “Clip” menu and select “Combine”

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