When buying computer equipment, users strive to use all its capabilities. It is no secret that laptops, as well as computers, are compatible with digital video devices such as cameras, camcorders, etc.
Instructions
Step 1
Camcorders are external and built-in. Integrated video cameras are usually located on the top of a laptop. You can find out this visually by examining the laptop.
Step 2
Turn on your laptop and click on the "My Computer" icon. You will see a window with local drives and external connected devices. If you find below the item "Video devices" or just "Video", click on it with the mouse, and you will see yourself on the screen. Your laptop has an integrated, built-in video camera. Sometimes it may not work due to the lack of installed drivers, which must be downloaded to the laptop via a USB cable from the Internet from the manufacturer's website.
Step 3
If your laptop does not have a built-in video camera, you should connect an external video device to it. This is quite simple to do. Webcams are sold at computer hardware stores with the software required by USB cables. Read the instructions. Take a USB cable and connect your laptop to your camcorder via the USB port. After a few minutes, the laptop operating system will detect the externally connected device. Go to the "My Computer" folder and find the "USB video device" item there. Click on it with your mouse. If the drivers for the camera are downloaded automatically, then the hardware is installed and the camera will work. But sometimes you need to install the software yourself. Insert the disk supplied with the webcam into the receiving device, open it, find the installation file with the "exe" extension, run it by following the commands on the screen. After a while, the installation will end. Restart your computer, the camcorder is ready for use.
Step 4
A special 1394 port is used to connect a conventional camcorder (the one that can shoot video) to a laptop. This gives the best image quality of digital material downloaded from the camcorder, and also increases the download speed. A connecting cable with plugs for the FireWire 1394 port is also used for connection. If your laptop does not have such a port, buy an IEEE 1394 controller, insert it into the side port for connecting controllers with your thin part. Then insert the plug of the above cable into the controller, which connects the laptop to the camcorder. Connecting and disconnecting the controller is based on the principle of a USB stick. Check the connection of the camcorder through the operating system using the method described in item 2 above.
