[Wylug-help] Analogue camcorder users out there?

[Anne Wilson]

On Monday 16 February 2004 12:26, Andy Macdonald wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Feb, John Hodrien wrote:
> > On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 lists at mungewell.org wrote:
>
> {snip}
>
> {I seem to remember this started with a question about importing
> video via USB}
>
> In my limited experience, there are problems getting video down a
> USB cable at any kind of decent quality; firewire is much better of
> course, if supported.
>
> > "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act,
> > but a habit."
> >                                                      -- Aristotle
>
> It took me a while to realise that ...
>
Hi, Andy.  The problem is that I have lots of Hi8 tape, Egypt 20 years
ago, for instance, that I don't want to lose.  Bearing in mind how
quicky unused tapes deteriorate I wanted to get them onto vcd or dvd.

I was told that I could probably do it using a Radeon 9200 VIVO card,
but of course that needs suitable drivers to do more than the basic
display.  I have found a driver on the ATI site, now, that may just
possibly do it, but I daren't install that until I have a slice of
time to sort things out if anything goes wrong.

For the future, dvd and firewire will be the way, but for now I have
to find some way of dealing with this problem.  If this driver
doesn't bring results I will probably go for the Pinnacle Studio
DC10+, since I know that one wylug member uses it.  The LifeView
CapView gizmo that I have had for a long time is quite good at
grabbing a still frame, but that's all, really.  Its video capture is
frankly poor, and I haven't managed to get sound at all.  Under
Windows I couldn't get the svideo lead to work, so I had just the one
video input through a jack.  Not good enough.

Anne
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