On Thursday, June 5, 2003, at 07:36 PM, Gerhard Kuhn wrote: > A USB port of that era would not be capable of transferring the data > at the required rate for the DV stream so there has to be a firewire > connection (or some other connection capable of the high data rate) or > we have an analog camera here. Well, I've worked with a MiniDV camera that didn't have a Firewire port (not mine though). To get it into the computer, you'd have to take out the tape and use it in another camera or video deck. Trust me, the beasts exist. Daniel ************************** Daniel Beck danielbeck at mac.com http://homepage.mac.com/danielbeck/ Tadayoshi Video Productions---Video solutions in Tokyo dbeck at tvp.jp.com http://tvp.jp.com