Yes. A VHS camcorder is not likely to have Firewire ports, but it should
have audio/video outputs. They can be hooked to any card that allows video
capture from that source.

The card is either an analog-video-editing card (such as Pinnacle Studios'
DC10-plus), but that's semiprofessional and as such quite expensive ($200
over here).

A much cheaper and almost same-quality-and-features solution is a TV board
(it allows you to watch TV on your PC) which has a capture option, such as
Lifeview FlyVideo 98 (~$60). It can capture Hi8-quality video (better than
VHS...). You'll need the card, also any sound card (TV boards capture
sound with the help of sound card, not by themselves), a reasonably fast
PC (400 MHz will let you capture at VHS quality, 800 MHz -> almost the
best).

Good (fast and large) hard drive is important, especially on not very fast
PCs. Uncompressed videos which I capture are 2Gb for 10 minutes (my PC is
not fast enough to compress on the fly with the quality I want :( ), so
you should have a lot of free hard disk space before you start.

There's a lot of software, some of it is freeware, some not. VirtualDub is
the best choice for compressing and filtering, as well as an excellent
capture program. Adobe Premiere is the premier :) solution for non-linear
editing, but there are other cheaper options out there.

Yours,

<> Max Timchenko [MaxVT]
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On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Lisa Fisher wrote:
> Can you hook up a VHS camcorder to a computer so that you can put video on
> your computer? Is this even possible and if so what will I need? I have

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