[Mav]

I'm looking for a way to 'live capture' to my hard drive using the digital
camcorders controls. I'd like to connect via firewire from my camcorder to
my laptop and record directly to my disk only whne I press play on the
camcorder... and not record when I hit pause on the camcorder. Possibly a
3rd party product or plug in? Any and all help is greatly appreciated.

[Rehan]

Mav wrote:
> I'm looking for a way to 'live capture' to my hard drive using the digital
> camcorders controls. I'd like to connect via firewire from my camcorder to
> my laptop and record directly to my disk only whne I press play on the
> camcorder... and not record when I hit pause on the camcorder. Possibly a
> 3rd party product or plug in? Any and all help is greatly appreciated.

It is not a standard feature and is entrely dependent on the feature set
of your camcorder. Some allow such a feature while other dont.

--
Rehan
MS MVP (Digital Media)
www.rehanfx.org -- get effects & transitions for MM2

[Mav]

Thanks for the response. So you belive there is a protocol for camcorders to
communicate 'player commands' with video capture software such as MovieMaker?
MovieMaker supports it, but I have to find a camcorder that also supports
it? Any idea what this feature may be referred to as? Thanks again.

"Rehan" wrote:

> Mav wrote:
> > I'm looking for a way to 'live capture' to my hard drive using the digital
> > camcorders controls. I'd like to connect via firewire from my camcorder to
> > my laptop and record directly to my disk only whne I press play on the
> > camcorder... and not record when I hit pause on the camcorder. Possibly a
> > 3rd party product or plug in? Any and all help is greatly appreciated.
>
> It is not a standard feature and is entrely dependent on the feature set
> of your camcorder. Some allow such a feature while other dont.
>
> --
> Rehan
> MS MVP (Digital Media)
> www.rehanfx.org -- get effects & transitions for MM2
>

[Rehan]

Mav wrote:
> Thanks for the response. So you belive there is a protocol for camcorders to
> communicate 'player commands' with video capture software such as MovieMaker?
> MovieMaker supports it, but I have to find a camcorder that also supports
> it? Any idea what this feature may be referred to as? Thanks again.
>

What is your camcorder model ?

You may be interested in this article:
http://graphics.tomshardware.com/video/20041008/

--
Rehan
MS MVP (Digital Media)
www.rehanfx.org -- get effects & transitions for MM2

[Mav]

I'm looking to purchase a new camcorder, so if I could find 1 that could
control disk capture it would be ideal.

"Rehan" wrote:

> Mav wrote:
> > Thanks for the response. So you belive there is a protocol for camcorders to
> > communicate 'player commands' with video capture software such as MovieMaker?
> > MovieMaker supports it, but I have to find a camcorder that also supports
> > it? Any idea what this feature may be referred to as? Thanks again.
> >
>
> What is your camcorder model ?
>
> You may be interested in this article:
> http://graphics.tomshardware.com/video/20041008/
>
> --
> Rehan
> MS MVP (Digital Media)
> www.rehanfx.org -- get effects & transitions for MM2
>

[Rehan]

Mav wrote:
> I'm looking to purchase a new camcorder, so if I could find 1 that could
> control disk capture it would be ideal.
>
....

I dont have any specific recommendation. There were a few mentioned int
he article I referred:
>>http://graphics.tomshardware.com/video/20041008/



--
Rehan
MS MVP (Digital Media)
www.rehanfx.org -- get effects & transitions for MM2