Posted by Alpha on 12/07/05 00:56

"Dr Hfuhruhurr" <mike.rew@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> Scott Ehrlich wrote:
>> 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?

Your question is convoluted, confuses terms, and therefore makes no sense at
all. Please try re-wording after understanding mb/s, minutes relative to
capture rate, and USB 1.1 and 2.0 differences.

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