DV Movie help

[Atticus]

Anyone know much about getting DV from a camcorder to my computer?

I have figured out I will need to add firewire connections to my PC and I will need to buy a firewire line for the camcorder.
Any advice on this?

What I am trying to do is edit my daughter's video and be ready to record speakers at our meeting and edit them. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks, Travis

 

[Augy]

If you have XP it's really easy....just plug it in, turn on the camcorder, and XP will walk you through the rest. If you've pulled still images from a digital camera, it's the same process.

 

[Atticus]

I am trying to pull the video off the tape. It is much different than from a memory card.

 

[Augy]

If it's DV it's not that different. My camcorder uses a "mini-DV" cassette. I plug the firewire cable into the camcorder and turn it to "Play" (as opposed to Record). Within a few seconds, XP recognizes it and opens a window asking me what I want to do. I select "Create a movie" or something like that and it opens Microsoft's video editing software that comes with XP.

 

[Atticus]

AH I see. I don't have the fire wire connection in my computer yet. Good to know it will be easier than I thought. Thanks

 

[got2lb]

You pretty much need the firewire connection to pull the video to your computer. At least that's the way every camera I've used works, with the software I have.

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[Augy]

I might have an old firewire card laying around. They were expensive when I got it but now they're built into the motherboards. I think a FW card is pretty cheap now but if I have that old one laying about, no sense in you wasting money. I'll have a look for it tomorrow.

 

[Atticus]

New ones are around $10 now. Got to love technology advances. I am actually really surprised my computer didn't come with one. I assumed it did...