Camcorder to PC via USB

[robp]

Bit of an O/T but could anyone recommend software to edit and play with the basic film you get off a digital camera (not camcorder!)? I think it stores as a .mov file.

Thanks

[cirks]

I got Pinnacle Studio DV including their firewire card and cable for £48 from PCWorld (cheapest by a mile....which is a bit of a rare occurence for PCWorld!)

[pdV6]

Anyone know if the FireWire port on the back of a Soundblaster Audigy card is 6-pin or 4-pin?

I'm guessing 6-pin, as its a bit bigger than the DV port on the camcorder...

[roop]

It's the larger one shaped like an elongated D. About 2-3 times the size of the one on my camera side (Panasonic NV-EX1)

Roop

pdV6 said:

Anyone know if the FireWire port on the back of a Soundblaster Audigy card is 6-pin or 4-pin? I'm guessing 6-pin, as its a bit bigger than the DV port on the camcorder...

[pdV6]

Cheers Roop. Been doing a bit of Googling & came to the conclusion that it must be a 6-pin jobbie. Funny that Creative's site doesn't spell it out...

[meeja]

A 6-pin firewire port looks a bit like this...



A 4-pin firewire port looks like this....



Look out for the firewire logo as well...



4 pin ports are usually only found on peripherals (DV camcorders etc) and PC's only usually have the 6 pin ports.

However, some laptops (like my Dell for example!) have 4-pin firewire ports, just to add to the confusion!

[ErnestM]

PetrolTed said:

Just bought a basic card and cable from Novatech. About £23. Trying Pinnacle Studio which is a doddle to use. Tried Adobe Premiere but it was a bit complex.

A word of warning about Pinnacle, they don't do 16:9 format very well, so if you film in 16:9 and then import with Pinnacle, everyone will be taller and skinnier (and so will the cars)...

An inexpensive way to do 16:9 is either VideoWave:
www.roxio.com/en/products/videowave_power_edition/index.jhtml

or, use XP and the Microsoft Movie software (version 2) that comes with it...

Just an FYI as I spent a few days trying to figure out why all my movies where so tall and skinny (and then went to the Pinnacle web site in frustration)...

Cheers

ErnestM