Re: Freeware prog needed to transfer DV to laptop


"John Russell" <john_e_russell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Naveed" <corlioni1976REMOVE@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi All

I have a Laptop that was provided to me by work (only have user rights)
and
a personal desktop computer at home with a DVD burner and other editing
software. My desktop does not have a firewire connection but my laptop
does. What I want to do is transfer the footage from my camcorder to my
laptop and burn the avi to a DVD as a data file. Then transfer to my
home
PC and edit as needed. Does anyone know of some freeware software that I
can run on my laptop to get the camcorder to send the raw avi footage via
firewire? I cant install software as an administrator to my laptop as my
IT
department wont let me install any software on it apart from what I need
to
do my work, but I have found that I can run software sometimes.

I would appreciate any advise/directions.

I have tried some google searches but have found nothing useful.

Thankyou.

Naveed



What quality level are you expecting?

DV is 13gb an hour so you don't get much on a DVD if you want to edit in
DV on the other PC

Your best bet is to add Firewire to you Desktop PC, possibly by an
external USB 2.0 converter if you don't want to open the box.

If you must got down your route then you need to convert to DVD MPEG's
for transfer, and then use a decent MPEG editor to avoid any
recompression.

Interesting
http://www.pixela-1.com/captycable/

I hate spending money to buy a product which only has one use.

An alternative and more useful solution would be to get an external backup
drive with both USB and Firewire connections. Costs a bit more but is more
useful.


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