How to Enable DV-IN on the Sony DCR-HC37E

The Sony DCR-HD37E is a digital video camera that records all audio and video onto an inserted miniDV tape. You are then able to upload the information onto a computer system via a video editing program. Built into the Sony digital video camera is a DV-In port. This allows you to record content on the camera from an outside source, such as a television or other video camera.

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  Plug the 3.5mm end of the cable into the "Digital In" port on the side of the video camera.

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  Plug the red, white and yellow RCA audio/video cables into the "Video Out" ports on the device you want to send the video signal from.

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  Power on the connected equipment and the Sony DCR-HC37E. The video camera automatically detects the connected equipment.

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  Press the "Record" button on the digital video camera and it automatically begins to import the audio/video information from the connected source onto the video camera's miniDV tape.