🚀 go-pugleaf

On 2012-10-04 18:39, barbie gee wrote:
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> On Thu, 4 Oct 2012, Kristian M Zoerhoff wrote:
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>> On 2012-10-04 12:43, barbie gee wrote:
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>>> On Thu, 4 Oct 2012, Kristian M Zoerhoff wrote:
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>>>> On 2012-10-04 10:31, barbie gee wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Anybody have/use one that they can recommend?
>>>>>
>>>>> This would be to grab video off of an older camcorder, to a PC.
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't know a thing about this stuff, other than it's some cables,
>>>>> some
>>>>> drivers, and maybe some software to get the job done.  And, some of
>>>>> the
>>>>> low end devices capture at only a really low resolution.
>>>>
>>>> It would be nice to know WHAT CAMCORDER you have so we can figure
>>>> out if
>>>> it has USB on-board or not.
>>>
>>> It's a Sony DCR TRV8/TRV10.
>>> It has firewire, but whose computer has firewire?
>>
>> My ThinkPad does.
> 
> and, lo and behold, my desktop in my home office has one, too!

Turns out my wife's old Dell has it, too, but her new Acer does not.

> Now we have to be sure she actually HAS the firewire cable that fits
> with the camcorder.  The literature says it's some kind of "special"
> cable... Of course, back in 1999, I'm sure it was.  At least the
> business end of the cable I saw in the manual is standard fireware to
> the computer.

Yeah, as far as I can remember there was only one adapter design. It's
an IEEE standard, no less (1394).

> Software!  Windows Movie Maker!
> oh what have I gotten myself into...
> ;-)

Movie Maker isn't bad once you get the hang of it, but make sure you
have as much RAM as the machine can take.