Newsgroups: sci.electronics.misc
Subject: Re: How to connect camcorder to computer?
References: <[email protected]>
From: Tomi Holger Engdahl 
Date: 07 Apr 1999 02:58:35 +0300
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[email protected] (Sandrewww) writes: 
> Hey, I was wondering if there was a way for me to make a connection cord that
> hooks into my computer, and connects it to my video recorder via a/v cords. 

THe easiest and cheapest way to get any decent quality is to buy
a video digitizing card for your PC. Those are available from
very many manufacturers and any good computer shop should be able
to sell you one such product. Those cards are quite cheap compared the amount of 
electronics they have and how much software ou get with them.

> Anyone have plans?  Know where an application to run it would be?

Dirt cheap frame grabber is a very simple circuit which ocnnect to the
PC parallel port. The circuit can be built very simply and it can
even digitize moving video. The picture quality is very bad,
qutie unusable for anything serious. You cna find the project information
at http://nyquist.ee.ualberta.ca/~charro/cookbook/video/dcfg.tar.Z
I have built this circuit and I got it working after some tweaking.

You can find plans for better video digitizer circuit at 
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucapwas/video.html
That circuit is designed to capture good resolution still
images from the video. The details of the black and
white circuits are available on the web page.

-- 
Tomi Engdahl (http://www.iki.fi/then/)
Take a look at my electronics web pages at http://www.hut.fi/Misc/Electronics/