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Originally Posted by erol
If you find out the name/make/serial number of your hardrive and google it you should be able to find out.
going back a step another approach to getting the video 'into' the computer would be to use a digital recording device to 'digitise' the video. If for example you had a DV video camera (and provided it has a firewire data output on it) you could record from analogue video to the digital DV camcorder (which does the digitisation for you). Then connect the DV camcorder to a firewire port on the comptuer (you may need to buy a firewire card if you comptuer does not have one already) and 'simply' transfer the digital data from the camcorder to the HD. With this approach the writing speed of the HD does not matter because the computer can say to the camcorder 'wait a minute while I write that out', which it can't do when you are digitising a live analogue feed from a vcr.
It's pretty hard to give more specific advice really without knowing a lot more about what your 'application' is. If it's just a case of wanting to transfer some personal VHS tapes to digital format on the computer then personally I would for a grpahics card with video in facilites. Something like an ATI AIW 9600 or 9800 would do the job and would cost from about £100-£300 depending on which model you choose.
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Erol
Many thanks for your time in this reply.
I have been using Abode premiere for some time now with good results and now burn avi to DVD using Movie Factory 3. My video camera is a Panasonic NV DS150 which has av / s video and firewire. But the problem is the av and s video appear to be for out put from the camera only and not input. The fireware is both in and out but obviously can not connect this to the VCR playing the VHS tape.....unless I am missing something !!!
It would have been ideal to have the option to input direct into my camera and that was my starting point but it does not seem to be possible.
Many thanks again for any comments
Regards