Re: Best USB device for capturing video to AVI format

Ken:

My problem is that on the D830 laptop I'm running XP SP3, which came
installed on it (not upgraded from SP2). I've tried all the fixes I
can find on the internet (about a dozen different ones), but the
firewire port simply won't work under SP3. I've spoken to Dell about
this, but all they came up with was that they wanted to replace my
motherboard, which obviously isn't the issue. The closest I've come
has been to replace the firewire drivers with SP2 drivers (boot into
safe mode, copy the driver files at the command prompt), and I can get
the port to half work (Windows recognizes devices, but the devices
don't work). I realize I shouldn't have to put up with this since the
machine is fairly new and under warranty, but at some point a person
has to say enough time wasted. What I plan to do at this point is when
the day comes when my hard drive fails, or Windows gets broken, I'll
start over with SP2. But I'm not willing at this point to reformat,
since I have a fairly complex setup on my laptop.

Also, my original thought was to use a USB device for both TV
capability and video capture. But the TV feature wasn't totally
necessary. Anyhow, thanks for the suggestion.

Jon

On Jan 14, 4:32 pm, "Ken Maltby" <kmal...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
<ntr...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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Back to the original question: my Canon ZR600 camera itself gives me
the option of recording in either 320 or 160. It is a miniDV camera.
Last night I installed a pci firewire card in my desktop PC, connected
the camera via firewire, and captured some video with Windows Movie
Maker in DV format at 720, and the result seemed very good. But I
don't just want good; I want it to be the best it can be, so I
wondered what resolution factors come into play. As Ken observed, the
camera and its manual are very confusing. It is definitely sending a
digital signal, because I'm not using a capture card of any kind.

So I've given up the idea of using a USB device on my laptop. Now I
just need to tap into some decent software for capturing, editing and
burning to DVD. I have WMM as well as the basic Nero suite that came
with my DVD burner. Any other suggestions?

Jon

  Your Dell Latitude D830 appears to have a IEEE 1394 port,
on the left side.  All you need is some software to use that to
"Capture" the video from your camera.  You mentioned WMM
and that should be able to address your IEEE 1394 port.

  You might want to checkout the inexpensive editing programs
listed at    www.videohelp.com

Luck;
    Ken

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