Capturing Video From Camara

[Gatociego]

Working with/learning video editing using Premier 6.0

Everyone told me right at first that I would need an AIEE card with a 'firewire' cable in order to capture videos from video cameras. So, one AIEE card and $50 later, I haven't come across one camera that has this connection.

Today, we connected a camera to an external DVD player/recorder and recorded onto a DVD disc. This disc plays fine on THAT recorder to TV, but my external playback-only DVD player will not recognize the disc when I try to play on TV- messages says 'BAD DISC'. This disc will not play back on my internal DVD player/burner either- saying that Windows does not recognize this format.

So, just how in hell does one get material off of a digital video camera onto/into his computer in order to edit????????????

 

[Akribie]

The missing piece of information is what type of camera you have and what you have been trying to connect it with to your computer.

If you camera lacks FireWire, I wonder if it is a still camera, not a video camera?

More details, please, so I can try to help.