Re: Recording from Camcorder?


Scott Ehrlich wrote:
> I have a 1 Ghz Pentium 3, 384 Meg RAM, 160 Gig EIDE drive and DVD RW
> drive. I also have a Sony Digital 8 camcorder with firewire connection,
> and a firewire port on my PC. I'm running XP Pro.
>
> I want to find the cheapest and most reasonable way to capture video from
> the camcorder to hard drive, edit out scenes I don't want, somewhere along
> the line convert the footage to mp2 format, and burn it to DVD.
>
> I picked up an ADS Tech USB 701 box, but according to the USB spec for
> 1.1, at 4Mb/s I only get 74 minutes. I want a full 120+ minutes for
> complete capture. Would upgrading to a USB 2.0 card help with 9Mb/s as
> an option, or do I need to straight firewire and allow the software
> recommendation of this group to get me to my goal?
>
> Thanks for any and all feedback/advice.
>
> Scott

You won't be able to transfer the video via USB. The USB connection is
probably just for the Photo option on your camcorder, where it will
allow you to read from the Sony Memory stick. Firewire is made for the
job you want it to do, transfer full digital video to your PC. Adobe
premier is one of the best packages around for editing but is quite
expensive.
Have a look here http://www.videoforums.co.uk/reviews/guides for some
other options.

Doc

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