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Originally Posted by Mike
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
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OK Things are getting a bit confused here. I will try and clarify.
I assumed your video source was VHS (analog). With an analogue source you need to do two things. 1 - digitise the analgue video (turn it into a datastream) and 2 - get the datastream onto your computer. Thus the suggestion to record from VHS to DV was one means of achieving part one (digitisation) as DV is a digital format (unlike VHS which is analogue).
It would seem that your source is in DV format and thus already a datastream. This actually makes things a lot easier. All you need to do in this senario is transfer the datastream on the DV cassett to the PC. As your camcorder has a firewire output, all you need is a firewire input on the PC (which you may or may not already have) and some software. I believe premiere will work as the software.
So you need a firewire port on the computer. If it does not currently have one then one can be added as a PCI card. See here for the sort of thing required.
http://www.softwareandstuff.com/CRD10134.html
You will also need a firewire cable that will go from the camcorder to the firewire port on the PC (this is the physical connection)
Finally you need some software to handle the thransfer of the datastream on the camcorders casset to the PC. I am pretty sure that adobe premiere will be able to do this. If not then you will need some kind of software to do it.
In summary you need.
Firewire port on the PC (either exists already or can be added via a PCI card)
Firewire cable
Some sw.
I think we are getting close now
