I wanna make my own movies..

[squid2]

Ok ... im gonna buy a camcorder soon and use Adobe Premiere or some other program to cut clips.. i need to know if there is a camcorder than can easily have movie files imported to my computer so i can cut them, etc. I know how to convert and whatnot.. All i need to know is if there is an easy program where i can send whats happening on the camcorder right to my computer and how much that kind of camcorder will cost me. I want to make movies to burn to VCD/SVCD and eventually DVD when i get a DVD/RW Drive. Thanks for the help.

[Bondiablo]

You just need a DV cam with a firewire port and a firewire card to connect it to, if you dont already have a firewire port on your computer. Though if you're going to get that may as well look for a cam with line in and pass thru so you can use it for capturing from your VCR etc as well.

Don't know what the cams cost but a firewire card for your PC can be had for as little as $15 and should include some software for capturing/transferring from the cam or you can use a free program like DVIO or spend $33 on a really good one called Scenalyzer Live.

[dvd.master]

try using mgi videowave 5 for capturing and editing/authoring your movies as this software is very user friendly

(Bondiablo) was right that u need a firewire and they are really cheap !

i put all my movies onto dvdr but used to use svcd and believe me i have tried every program going and mgi is by far the easiest that will do all u need

[squid2]

Thanks!!! Does it really matter what kind of camcorder i get? I think i should i get DVcam? is this correct? Can I use a camcorder that uses a Physical Tape and still get it to firewire to my computer? again, thanks.

[Bondiablo]

even DV cams have physical tapes, it's just their own little DV tapes but yeah it'll have to be a DV cam to do this.