20 Most Recent Panasonic NV-GS230 Mini DV Digital Camcorder Questions & Answers

There will be no drivers available for an obsolete item such as this.

You should be able to just plug a USB into the camera connect it to your computer.
The camcorder should come up as an drive in "MY computer"

Try renaming any video that are named *.moi to *.mpg
if they wont play.

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Connect with a firewire cable and open Windows Movie Maker, you should not need additional drivers or software.

Use a firewire cable and open Windows Movie Maker to capture.

Open Windows Movie Maker and have the camera set to VCR mode, that's the one thqat replays the tape.
Try again.

A firewire cable with a full size firewire on one side and a small rectangular one on the other side.

did you check the manual

This is usually caused by an oxidized or defective Audio/Video drum. Try running a cleaning tape through the camera. If this does not solve the problem the camera will need to be repaired qualified service technician.

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if worst come to worst, plug it into a dvd recorder, or VCR and record straight onto a hard copy

try using windows XP mode to run an older program (you can download windows xp mode from microsoft.com)

After capture while using < winDVD creator 3 > program and edit movie, in the end you can choose in what kind you want to have your final video file and you can choose PAL or NTSC

Best
1. Copy the video to your computer with WinDV. No "capturing" involved. The video resolution and PAL/NTSC format will be the same as the source.
2. Then convert to whatever format you like.


You could also use something that copy and converts the video directly from the DV, like convert to dvd with Ulead DVD Workshop.
DV is a fixed standard and comes in 50Hz and 60Hz versions.

50Hz ("PAL" 625/50) 720x576, 25fps interlace (aka 576i)
4:2:0 components, 25Mb/s Video Rate
LPCM audio 2ch 16bit 48KHz or 4ch 12bit 32kHz

60Hz ("NTSC" 525/60) 720x480, 29.97fps interlace (aka 480i)
4:1:1 components, 25Mb/s Video Rate
LPCM audio 2ch 16bit 48KHz or 4ch 12bit 32kHz

Meaning, You cannot change the camera. It is either a pal camera or a ntsc camera. Othewise you will have to by a firmware update from the manufacture's website.