Hi fellas just bought the sony DCR-HC30. (was going to buy the trv22 50 bucks less, but liked the smaller HC30)

I tried the digital pass through feature. 4 head VCR connected to HC30 then to PC by firewire.

Used premiere 6 to preview play back. Then I went ahead and capture a 3 min segment of the VHS tape. But when I went ot play back it seemed jerky. I had a lot of dropped frames.

PC specs:
Windows Xp
2.0 ghz
512 RAM
120 gig HD

I was wondering what can you fellas recommed to help me out? Second hard drive?what kind? Codec?more RAM?best capture software?