Posted by Scott Ehrlich on 12/05/05 11:42

I have a 1 Ghz Pentium 3, 384 Meg RAM, 160 Gig EIDE drive and DVD RW
drive. I also have a Sony Digital 8 camcorder with firewire connection,
and a firewire port on my PC. I'm running XP Pro.

I want to find the cheapest and most reasonable way to capture video from
the camcorder to hard drive, edit out scenes I don't want, somewhere along
the line convert the footage to mp2 format, and burn it to DVD.

I picked up an ADS Tech USB 701 box, but according to the USB spec for
1.1, at 4Mb/s I only get 74 minutes. I want a full 120+ minutes for
complete capture. Would upgrading to a USB 2.0 card help with 9Mb/s as
an option, or do I need to straight firewire and allow the software
recommendation of this group to get me to my goal?

Thanks for any and all feedback/advice.

Scott

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