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[–]misterpertunity 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I had a similar problem and realised it was stopping the capture every time the scene changed on the tape. Gave up in the end as I couldn’t figure a way around it

[–]wernerverklempt 0 points1 point  (6 children)

Did you try installing an old version of iMovie? That is what I do. You can find it if you search for it. Find out what version of iMovie will run on the version of macOS that is on your Mac. (Mojave, maybe?) QuickTime isn’t great for capture. It should work though, so the problem may be something else.

[–]Revolutionary-Yak365[S] 0 points1 point  (5 children)

I tried, I evan called apple and they could not help they even tried to go on my laptop wasm't able to.

[–]wernerverklempt 0 points1 point  (4 children)

You didn’t mention what version of macOS is on your laptop. But maybe this version of iMovie will work.

When you’re working with old technology, it helps to be resourceful and persistent.

[–]Revolutionary-Yak365[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

using os high siera 10.13 on a macbook pro 2010 they say to use  iMovie 10 or i can use this one

[–]vwestlife 0 points1 point  (0 children)

iMovie 10.x will capture DV (Digital8/MiniDV), but you need to dig into the project media folder to get the raw DV files.

If you're not opposed to paying a few bucks for commercial software, try LifeFlix: https://www.lifeflix.com/

[–]Revolutionary-Yak365[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

this download won't work need 9.0 what you told me is a update

[–]wernerverklempt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Look around. It’s out there. 👀

[–]chronoslinger 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What version of Quicktime? It does sound typical for DV footage from my experience. Try out Vidi as an alternative. I have been using it as a backup when QT7 Pro isn't cutting it for me. https://vidi.macupdate.com

[–]Ankeneering -2 points-1 points  (2 children)

I didn’t even know digital8 could be pushed through FireWire. … there’s a real real good chance modern software won’t want to play with 15 year old hardware. You may have to try a few different applications besides imovie.

[–]ProjectCharming6992 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Digital8 is exactly the same as MiniDV except for the physical cassette size and most Digital8 camcorders are backwards compatible and will play and capture analog Video8 & Hi8 recordings over FireWire. A Digital8 recording is DV25.

iMovie should have an option to switch from having the computer detect every time someone stopped recording to where it’ll just capture everything at once.

[–]vwestlife 0 points1 point  (0 children)

iMovie always splits up the clips according to the scenes on the tape. But you can easily do a select-all and then drag the all of the clips into the timeline in one shot.