We are now on the third generation of the Ridgid SeeSnake Micro ($224, Ohio Power Tool) and one question remains very prevalent for all 3 generations; “can I record video onto my laptop”. Yes, you can however first you should probably ask yourself how often you will need to be capturing video. If you plan to capture video every time you use the camera it would definitely be advantageous to use one of the handheld recording devices with a built in SD card like the Ridgid Micro Explorer ($697, Ohio Power Tool) that you can simply transfer over later. If you think it might just be every once in a while the SeeSnake Micro may work very well for you.
To record video using the Ridgid SeeSnake Micro, it is not as easy out of the box as you might hope. The video our cable goes to a yellow video RCA cable. This works fine if you have one of the Ridgid SeeSnake Monitors or a shoulder mounted VHS camcorder from 1987. It will be pretty hard to find a laptop with an RCA video-in however but don’t worry there are many ways to convert the analog signal. One such way is to use an inexpensive cable like this USB 2.0 Audio/Video Capture Cable ($8.74, Amazon) or another option might be to convert down to Micro USB ($2.95, Amazon) and record onto a digital camcorder. If you don’t want to mess with it, another good option would be to bring the provided SeeSnake RCA cord into any Micro Center and have one the nice people there help you out.
