Recently bought my first digital camcorder (Sony PC8E). I want to transfer
footage onto video CD's - I do not have a DVD burner

I know (?) that I need a firewire card & some software;

Dabs have the Lucent 3 port firewire card inc Cyberlink Power Director SE
for £15 (quicklink 17ZKWS). I seem to recall some good comments about the
card a few weeks go in the group - can anyone advise re the software.

My initial requirements are very basic ie get a copy of the footage from the
tape in the camcorder onto a CD in a format that can be viewed on a PC or
better still, a DVD player. Guess it would be nice to do some basic editing
ie remove unwanted shots, but I *think* thats about it

Will a 466mhz Celeron, 256mb ram be up to this

Any info appreciated

Cheers

AC

"AC" wrote in message
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Recently bought my first digital camcorder (Sony PC8E). I want to transfer
footage onto video CD's - I do not have a DVD burner

I know (?) that I need a firewire card & some software;

Dabs have the Lucent 3 port firewire card inc Cyberlink Power Director SE
for £15 (quicklink 17ZKWS). I seem to recall some good comments about the
card a few weeks go in the group - can anyone advise re the software.

My initial requirements are very basic ie get a copy of the footage from the
tape in the camcorder onto a CD in a format that can be viewed on a PC or
better still, a DVD player. Guess it would be nice to do some basic editing
ie remove unwanted shots, but I *think* thats about it

Will a 466mhz Celeron, 256mb ram be up to this

I would buy the cheaper version of the card without software, and buy some
proper editing software instead.
You are probably on the limit with that spec of PC though.
With a higher spec PC I would have recommended using Microsoft Movie Maker 2 as
that is free.
Look around for a copy of EditStudio 2 - free on many PC magazine cover disks.
Reasonable editor

Loz