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Storage
Essentials
To copy video from a camcorder to a computer all you need is a FireWire cable with the matching connectors. If your system has a FireWire/IEEE 1394 port, which looks like these...
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| Four-pin FireWire | Six-pin FireWire |
If you don't have a FireWire port, you'll have to add a FireWire adapter card.
Options
- To take still photos (camera permitting)
- A memory card for saving those photos
- A card reader for quickly downloading still images to the PC
- To edit videoptions
- Quick-and-dirty editing software
- Professional-quality video-editing software for the Independent filmmaker and business videographer
- Video display (Independent filmmaker, business videographer)
- To output video
- CD-recordable drive (for PC-playable AVI and VCD files) and burning software
- DVD-recordable drive (for creating discs playable in a PC or in a standalone DVD drive) for the Trendsetter, independent filmmaker and business videographer
- VCR with S-Video input (if camcorder has S-Video-output connector) to create VHS tapes
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