Help Capturing DV, no Firewire

[fozzieb]

Hi all,

My dad bought a new all in one PC (hp touchsmart) it has no firewire ports and no way of adding a pci card.

Is there any way he can capture the video from his DV camcorder on this pc?

Cheers,
Steven

[M Bruner]

Have you looked into a firewire to USB converter?

[guns1inger]

I can't vouch for how well it works, but you would be looking for something like this " http://www.everythingusb.com/news/index/3889.htm

There seem to be a few around, but check to make sure they support your format (I assume it is PAL)

[fozzieb]

that looks like the very thing, just need to find one now.

cheers

[fozzieb]

can only see ntsc ones, although Pinnacle do a Movie Box HD-USB, that looks like it does dv to usb transfers.

[edDV]

Those Pixela devices don't work well. For full quality capture to another computer that has a Firewire port.

Or, capture analog to an S-video capture device. The quality will be lower.