Looks like I am going to have to buy a new digital cam.
Does anybody know what the best one is to work with the
Dell Inspiron 8500, Roxio software?

Hi Lanny,

Theres a few programs that'll do this for
you. Most of them you have to pay for.

Roxio should be able to do it. Umm, there's
Mainactor, which I use http://www.mainactor.com
this isnt free tho. There's another one, but
forgot the name of it. Umm when you say Digital
Video cam, I take it you mean for Video Editing?

Ulead I think have some video editing programs.

Even Moviemaker, which is part of XP
will do it I think.

1. If it's Video editing, you wanna do, get:

1. A digital cam, preferably with firewire
(NOT to sure whats available, where you
are). I use a Panasonic DS-NV350 I think
it is). It's got a Firewire connection built-in.

I think the cam I have. I can take a video
run it thru this PC. Edit it, then upload
it back to the cam. Then play it thru a TV.

And if I want to record it to a normal video
I have to play it thru the TV then record
onto the normal video player.

As it (or most digital cams), can't take
adaptors for normal video tapes,and it's
higher quality than normal tape.

2. You'll have to check, and see if that PC
you have, has firewire built-in. If not, you'll
have to buy a Firewire PCI card, in order to
use it.

3. Get a bigger Hard drive. A small one isn't
good / big enough, for video editing.

Even a little bit of film, can take upto 5 GB.

4. Don't bother getting a cam, with USB
I dont think it'll be fast enough for video editing.

I think USB vidcams are used mainly for
video conferencing, over the net. NOT for
video editing. It'll be way too slow.



"lanny" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Looks like I am going to have to buy a new digital cam.
> Does anybody know what the best one is to work with the
> Dell Inspiron 8500, Roxio software?