Sorry to post this here, but maybe someone can help out.
I'm trying to find which camcorders will take analogue video and audio in and squirt them out via firewire to be turned into avi or mpeg files on a PC.
After a debacle with a JVC thing that had misleading info in the copy of the instruction manual on their website (the refund is pending but I've lost a lot on the postage) and having wasted days looking up this sort of info, it occurs to me that someone here might have such a camcorder and could suggest the model number. There is some urgency as I have 2 second chance offers pending that didn't reach their reserve on ebay. These are JVC GR-DX77 and DX100.
Basically what I'm trying to do initially, and the driving force, is to take in vid and audio from a VHS video and record it straight into a PC. If that works, I have another project for which I'd like to take in the video via the s-video input on the camcorder and audio via the composite input and interleave these within the camcorder then send to the PC. Canons in general seem to have composite, but not s-vid inputs.
I wouldn't be asking here, but JVC support hung up on me today, and say it will take some days to respond to the email I've sent.
Regular readers of my OT questions will be pleased to learn that the sex-bolts aka sleeve nuts are now holding the windows back in on the boat, and that today I've successfully steamed some curved timber in the garden with the help of some scrap tubing fed through the fence from the half built M&S store down the road. In general, life is good.