Can anybody help

Want to take camcorder footage into my PC, edit etc and then squirt back to tape or something like that.

Anybody done this and what harware are they using ie particular card in PC or device

Thanks in advance

Jase

 

In theory - as I've never got the time but got the bits...

DV Camcorder - TV Capture Card - Video

TV Capture card is the thing. I've got 2 (one each PC) Win Hauppage & an ATI All In Wonder. Simple to "capture" video instead of TV signal. Need a large amount of space on HDD to do this tho' Done a bit, but nothing that I would consider of reasonable quality for bbs consumption Trying to get a lap from BA down to a manageable size - shows a certain bbs P1 driver not quite in control The reverse process is a matter of recording the input from the PC onto the vid.

ATi All In Wonder is v. good for the job. Good chunk RAM probably useful too, in addition to large HDD.

I <I>will</I> do it & post it up...

 

Jase,
If youve got a DV with the right connector (looks like a small USB port ) you can buy a kit from PC world that contains one of the new Fire wire i/f card's for direct DV to PC connection & all the editing sw its got £30 off at the moment so its down to £69.99
Paul.

 

cheers guys

 

If you have the connector mentioned above (DVi) you can buy a DVi-USB cable and software for 80 quid. You don't need a firewire card, but you need to record back to your camera unless you have some other T.V. output