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More info?)
Check out "Pinnacle Studio" I think it's at ver.9 now.
A great program for doing just that.
Make your own movies etc....
"Markeau" <please_reply@news.group> wrote in message
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> Most probably the cam only uses its USB cable connection to move pics from
> the stick to PC (ie, it won't move video). But, to move video you either
> 1)have to use the iLINK connector (note that Sony iLINK = Apple Firewire =
> IEEE1394) ... so if the cam came with an iLINK/1394 cable then you need to
> connect it to the 1394 port on your PC. If your PC does not have a 1394
> port then, if the PC has room for an expansion card (some lower end PC's
> don't) you can add it ... these are examples of 1394 PCI cards, each comes
> with the software required to capture/edit video:
>
>
http://www.adstech.com/products/PYROBasicDV/intro/API310intro.asp?pid=API-310
>
>
http://www.adstech.com/products/PYRO1394DV/intro/API1394intro.asp?pid=API-1394PCI
>
> or, 2) add a device to the PC that lets you use the cam's analog
> video/audio outputs to capture video like this:
>
http://www.adstech.com/products/USBAV_701/intro/usb701intro.asp?pid=USBAV701
>
> The usual process is to capture the video to the PC's hard drive, then as
> a 2nd step burn it to dvd - this can be tedious, complex and time
> consuming. BUT, there are also other simpler methods such connecting the
> cam directly to a standalone DVD recorder. I think PC Magazine recently
> had a review of some units like this one:
>
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1750223,00.asp
> ... I guess it connects directly to the cam's video/audio output jacks,
> don't know.
>