old DV camcorder footage into windows 8-1 PC

Michael Reynolds

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Jan 27, 2015
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just got a new computer running windows 8-1 and I have an old Panasonic DV camcorder NV- MX 300 . . . cannot find a firewire card for computer im not throwing away a perfectly good camera anyone got any solutions to this is there another way of transferring my footage into my computer
 

kanewolf

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This Microsoft blog talks alot about 8.1 and firewire.

Microsoft made a standalone driver available according to that article. If you have a firewire card already, it would be worth a try.