Dhines,

Yeah..I was there. That hill was rough, the whole course was rough.

I'll be at some of the Winter Series as well. If you can't find me, look for the guy on the Yellow 400EX(only one I've seen at the races)he'll know where I am. It's the only modded Lakota I've seen. I'll keep my eyes open.

Yeah, get that digitized or maybe I can watch it at the next race.

Later
Shane

 

Just purchased the Sony DCR-TRV320 Digital camcorder. Now things are somewhat clearer. The camcorder came with an A/V connecting cable.

Basically, I have two options to transfer information to and from the camcorder. As mentioned above, the A/V connection and the other is an S-Video connection.

The A/V connecting cable has a 1/8" male plug (type you would find on your headphones to your Walkman) at one end which plugs into the camcorder and the other end is equipped with 3 (Red=Right Audio, White=Left Audio, and Yellow=Video) 1/4" RCA male plugs.

The S-Video cable is a cable that is approximately the same thickness of a cable TV cable and both ends look like the end found on a PS2 computer mouse plug (new mice that come w/ computers). This cable produces much better transfer of video and audio to and from the device. The drawback is that you need to have fairly new electronic equipment to reap the benefits. Basically, both pieces of equipment must be S-Video capable.

My next move is to find a small mountable camera that I can attach to the A/V connecting cable. It would be great if I could find a camera that connected via S-Video, but doubt this is available.

I assume that the RCA connectors that come with the mountable cameras are male.

Is this the case? Can you find Male-to-Male RCA adapters in the store? This is probably what I would need in order to connect the camera to my camcorder.

 

Brian,

Make sure that the RCA connectors are for AV-IN and not OUT. From what you've described, it sounds like those connectors would be used to play out to a TV.

Dennis

 

DHINES,

It's actually two way. The camera is capable of recording as well as transferring if that makes any sense.

It accepts video-in and video-out. I just need to get a handle on the cabling and reread my manual to make sure I can do it through the semi-RCA cable.