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The first time you connect via firewire cabling into the Thunderbolt port on your Mac with the tape device you should be asked if you want to allow the device to be accessible. MacOS Ventura and upwards - make sure Firewire connected device is permission to be accessible: USB-C / Thunderbolt port on a Mac Computer Old Firewire 800 cable I had lying around or something like ( Bizlander Firewire High Speed Premium DV to Firewire Cable 800 1394B 800-400 IEEE 9 Pin Male to 4 Pin Male Cable 6FT for Mac Pro, MacBook Pro, Mac Mini, iMac PC,Digital Cameras, SLR )Īpple Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) to Thunderbolt 2 Adapter Then you can save those edits and splits as a new video file(s) in a compressed lossy format that provides significant storage space savings while providing similar visual clarity as "digital original" Once the above is done, if you want to, you can using the tool(s) that you prefer edit the "digital original" to make adjustments as well as split up the "digital original". Using Firewire you can do the initial (or final) transcode & capture which takes the the max quality video/audio from the tape and saves it as a file that is lossless (or can be lossy) to your Mac. Have done this using OBS App (GUI) on a MacBook model (Apple Silicon) with macOS 13.2.1įirewire Connection vs RCA or S-Video Cable connection:įirewire enables the MAXIMUM quality transfer of the video / audio as compared to an analog S-Video or RCA connector connections.

Have done this using FFmpeg (command line) on various Mac's over multiple macOS versions (10.14, 10.15, 11.x, 12.x, 13.x) Successfully transferred from a Sony camcorder ( DCR-TRV103 ) Video8 tapes over Firewire (Thunderbolt / USB-C) to digital DV files the full RAW tape. Also many S-VHS decks also have a Firewire interface.

Many Sony Camcorders of that era have an "iLink" interface (Firewire). UPDATED: Feb 19 2023: GUI based options and misc edits for clarity.Ī method for converting old videos on tapes (Video8, Digital8, Hi8, VHS, etc.) if you have a old device (camcorder, VCP, VCR, Playback Deck, etc.) that has an IEEE 1394 / Firewire / iLink connector built into it such as my Sony DCR-TRV103 Camcorder does.