[Neil Street]

Theo:

Thanks again for taking the time to respond. It has been a real help.

Neil

[Neil Street]

Thanks Theo. That sounds easy enough. I don’t have a laptop – is it difficult to install into a desktop?

[Neil Street]

Sad to say, I’m not sure what a firewire card is, or how to use it in this situation!

[Neil Street]

Hi Theo, and thanks. You’re right, the cable came with ImageMixer. I think I did capture it via that software at one point, but had a hard time importing it into Sony Vegas. I believe it did save it as an avi file, but I didn’t save the file since I couldn’t import to Sony Vegas and (stupidly!) thought I could just capture it direct to SV. I will try again to capture it in image maker, and try to get it to SV from there.

Not sure what version of DirectX I am working with, and can’t locate on my pc.

Thanks for the help!

Neil

[Neil Street]

Hi Mike:

I am using a pc rather than a Mac, so I didn’t have a firewire port on my computer. I did a bit of research and purchased a “DV to usb pc transfer cable”, (all in one unit) which is designed to go from the camcorder to the usb port on my pc. It is IEEE 1394 compliant (which I understand is important). When I set up to capture video/audio from a mini dv tape in my camcorder, it captures the video just fine. But it doesn’t capture the audio. That’s where the problem is.

Thanks for your help!

Neil

[Neil Street]

Thanks for the response Mike. I am using a firewire cable, but it didn’t come with a firewire card. Not sure what a “firewire card” is! It is capturing the video track — does that indicate I already have a firewire card installed?

Thanks,

Neil