"timothy harrison" wrote in message
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I hope someone here can help. have just bought a Canon mv600i and laptop
(amilo D8820) Can I use the software that comes with it (XP), windows
movie
maker, microsoft picture it,adobe photoshop etc, to capture stills from dv
and transfer to e-mail? as you may gather I'm new to all this and not very
tech. minded.
thanks in advance,Tim

As long as your laptop has a Firewire port,IEE1934 or iLink under Sony
brands,you should be okay to connect the camera to the lap top.If you have
USB2 ports there are devices that let you capture video through USB2. USB1
is just to slow for video transfer. Bear in mind you need a hefty hard
drive to store and work on video files.Also if your hard drive is formatted
under FAT32, as used on early versions of Windowseg 98 and upto XP - then
your limited to about 20 mins of video in one file. If its formatted to NTFS
as used in WINXP then there should be no problem with large video files. You
can also get external portable hard drives. I use a 120Gb on made by
Archos- it plugs into USB2 and works just like any other drive. Hope this
helps.