What adaptor do I need?

[SEALs1230]

I have a Sony analog camcorder. It has the red white and yellow connectors and I want to be able to hook this up to my laptop. My laptop has USB ports and everything. I was wondering what kind of adaptor do I need to get so that I can put all the footage from the camcorder to my hard drive so I can work with them and eventually create a DVD out of them.

[redwudz]

How about a PCMCIA capture card? Or as a alternative, there are a few external capture boxes that have a USB 2.0 output.

[SEALs1230]

Ohh...so I need a capture card not just a little adaptor thing to make it go from red yellow and white to USB. I dont know anything about capture cards. Does anyone have any suggestions?

[dvdguy4]

I dont know how this works but just found it at walmart website.

Xpert DVD Maker USB 2.0 Video Capture Device
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.gsp?product_id=2427530&cat=164215&type=19&dept=...32959%3A164215

[ulapines]

Your desktop computer with 3 Ghz P4 is much more suited for creating DVDs

[thecoalman]

Ohh...so I need a capture card not just a little adaptor thing to make it go from red yellow and white to USB. I dont know anything about capture cards. Does anyone have any suggestions?

It has to convert the analog signal to digital. Check under capture cards to the left, it doesn't have to be a card. They make them for firewire or USB. Make sure you have USB2 on your laptop and the device is USB2 if you want USB.