Posted by Steve King on 05/21/07 14:48

"E Bentley" <eddy.bentley@(delete.re.no.spam)virgin.net> wrote in message
news:X7c4i.692$k32.295@newsfe4-gui.ntli.net...
> nobody special wrote:
>> The USB video converters are generally rubbish, a firewire based one
>> is better. Some folks like the ADS pyro line of products, but most
>> folks I know swear by the Canopus brand like the ADVC-200 and up.
>
> Thanks, Nobody.
>
> Forgive my ignorance, but is "a firewire based one" like the lead I have
> which connects my digital camera to my computr's USB port, i.e. straight
> cable with USB plug at one end and a tiny D-shaped plug at the other?
>
> Is there a firewire video converter available which will connect my
> camcorder (with its separate traditional V & A output sockets) to a USB
> port?
>
> Eddy.

I'll pitch my 2 cents toward the Canopus ADVC products. I've been using a
model 100 for three or four years to get analogue video into and out of
computers. Works great. The model 100 even allows one to bypass some
copy-protect schemes, a feature not that important to me, bit it is to some.
The unit connects to the computer with an IEEE1394 (Firewire) cable.
Connectors on the box provide analogue video and stereo audio in and out.
Video is on either an RCA jack for composite video or an S-Video connector.
New the unit was around $249. I'm sure they go for a lot less on Ebay.

Steve King

[Back to original message]