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"stromer" <stromer2@aol.com> wrote in message
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> I just bought a new Toshiba Laptop with a DVD burner and video editing
> software. However, it does not have a IEEE 1394 video input port,
> just 3 USB ports and a PC card slot. How can I get my digital videos
> from my JVC camcorder to the computer so I can edit my video and make
> a DVD of the result? The JVC only has the 1394 and component video
> out ports and the standard component video out ports.
>
> Do I have to buy a PC card adapter with a IEEE 1394 port to input
> video to the computer from the camcorder or is there another option?
>
I'm surprised that you bought a Toshiba Laptop with a DVD burner
without a 1394 port. Did you have to spend much time finding it?
Sorry, I'm just being sarcastic, but the surprise is real
My wife just bought a cheap Toshiba. It has no DVD burner but it does
have 1394 and was under $1300. Yes, you can get a PCMCIA card
with 1394, and I think you can get USB-2 (you do have those, I hope)
to 1394 adapter that sits outside the machine. My internal drive is either
not fast enough, or is too fragmented to capture to it without dropping
frames, so I connect the camera to the 1394 port and use an external
USB-2 drive as a capture drive. It works pretty well most of the time.
I suspect that you are a bit confused about some of your terminology.
On consumer gear component uses 3 RCA (Phono) connectors that are
color-coded with Red, Blue, and Green (although the signal RGB)
Professional equipment will have 3 BNC connectors for component
video, typically labeled Y; R-Y; B-Y. If you don't see this connector
arrangement, then you probably do not have access to component video.
S-Video will usually be named as such, and was often referred to as
component in the very early days of it's existence, but it is not the same
thing as component as described above. There is a "Y" signal that is
pretty much identical to the "Y" in component, but the color signal is
modulated in much the same way as used in composite, except that it
is not mixed. The connector is a round shell with 4 tiny pins (2 for the
"Y" part of the signal and 2 for color). This is also referred to as Y/C
video. Professional equipment mostly uses the same connector, today,
but there used to be more robust Y/C connectors on such equipment.
Composite video will be a single RCA (Phono) and it will be color coded
as yellow on consumer gear. Pro equipment will have composite video
simply labeled video in or out, and it will usually be a BNC connector.
David
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