Posted by frito on January 12, 2007, 3:00 pm
OK, I'm buying, Shirley set 'em up.
The wife got a digital video camera that uses the tiny
cassette type tapes with the intent of being to store some
video on the PC or a CD. Now that I've been tasked
with setting this up I find that the USB cable just transfers
the stills from the SD card, nothing from the tape. Of course
I'll have to purchase the optional DV cable, but then I don't
have a place to plug it on my PC. I've Googled till I'm
crosseyed, but what I've found indicates I need a Firewire
card to do what she wants. I've found them priced from
$11 to $85 and it seems that 400MBps is the standard.
Anybody got preferences to brands or associated software
that might make this easier. Of course every store I looked
at when I was Christmas shopping for the camera told me
everything I need is included. Who knows maybe I can
eventually make some biker how to videos like Les.
Ya'll grab another on me, this tech stuff is giving me a
headache.
--
"frito"
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Posted by AH#104 on January 12, 2007, 3:09 pm
frito sed:
> OK, I'm buying, Shirley set 'em up.
> The wife got a digital video camera that uses the tiny
> cassette type tapes
Any chance of returning it and/or exchanging it for a video camera that uses
the SD or CF cards or even min-disc? The SD cards are up to 8GB, the CF
cards are up to 16GB now,,, plenty of room for hours of digital video.
Otherwise, if yer stuck with the camera, good luck... 'cause now they've got
Blue-Ray(HD) and some other HD-video coming out which should just about make
the little cassettes... obsolete.
ASSHOLE#104 Len
Posted by JMark on January 12, 2007, 3:51 pm
frito wrote:
> OK, I'm buying, Shirley set 'em up.
> The wife got a digital video camera that uses the tiny
> cassette type tapes with the intent of being to store some
> video on the PC or a CD. Now that I've been tasked
> with setting this up I find that the USB cable just transfers
> the stills from the SD card, nothing from the tape. Of course
> I'll have to purchase the optional DV cable, but then I don't
> have a place to plug it on my PC. I've Googled till I'm
> crosseyed, but what I've found indicates I need a Firewire
> card to do what she wants. I've found them priced from
> $11 to $85 and it seems that 400MBps is the standard.
> Anybody got preferences to brands or associated software
> that might make this easier. Of course every store I looked
> at when I was Christmas shopping for the camera told me
> everything I need is included. Who knows maybe I can
> eventually make some biker how to videos like Les.
>
> Ya'll grab another on me, this tech stuff is giving me a
> headache.
Make sure you have a slot available for the FW card on your motherboard.
If so, the firewire isn't so bad for tape transfer to whatever
"moviemaker" type software you might have access to. Most any cheap
computer show FW card will do. Maybe look for what I think might be
called a "slot extension tray" or some such sh&t that will let you add
the FW slot to the front of your computer for easier access. The
firewire card I have/had accomodated such an extension - or maybe it was
dual access - can't remember now.
No - I am not on drugs, but I was last night at a Holiday Inn Express -
with a girl named Lolita with red lips, hair and fingernails - said she
knew the Big Easy - big surprise there.
One other thing to watch for is that frequent high speed FF and RW on
tapes in the camera tends to cause a lot of wear on both the tape and
the hardware that tries to play a tightly wound tape too often.
--
JMark
Posted by Shaggy on January 12, 2007, 5:31 pm
"frito" Writ:
> OK, I'm buying, Shirley set 'em up.
> The wife got a digital video camera that uses the tiny
> cassette type tapes with the intent of being to store some
> video on the PC or a CD. Now that I've been tasked
> with setting this up I find that the USB cable just transfers
> the stills from the SD card, nothing from the tape. Of course
> I'll have to purchase the optional DV cable, but then I don't
> have a place to plug it on my PC. I've Googled till I'm
> crosseyed, but what I've found indicates I need a Firewire
> card to do what she wants. I've found them priced from
> $11 to $85 and it seems that 400MBps is the standard.
> Anybody got preferences to brands or associated software
> that might make this easier. Of course every store I looked
> at when I was Christmas shopping for the camera told me
> everything I need is included. Who knows maybe I can
> eventually make some biker how to videos like Les.
> Ya'll grab another on me, this tech stuff is giving me a
> headache.
The Core 2 Duo machine I just built has firewire built into the motherboard.
Aside from that, the Sound Blaster Audigy cards have a firewire port onnem
too. That's why me gnu machine's gots 2.
Get the cheap expansion card an cross yer fingers.
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Posted by frito on January 13, 2007, 9:15 am
Well, thanks for the responses. As usual I'm behind
timewise. Can't return the camera so I guess the discount
firewire is the way I'll go. Anyway she got the camera she
wanted it's just my problem to make it work <g>
Shirley, one more please......................
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"frito"
Fred Snetzer
'01 FLHT, '97 M2²
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> The wife got a digital video camera that uses the tiny
> cassette type tapes