LVTravel said:
This method (USB) of getting the DV image to the computer will not give
very good results. The speed of USB is not enough to maintain enough
throughput for high quality video.
The best way to do this is to use IEEE1394 (Firewire or iLink, Sony's
description of Firewire). This is designed to give high quality import
DV-AVI format and will work with your camera an WMM.
If your computer does not have firewire, you can purchase either a PCI
firewire (desktop) card or a PCCard (laptop) firewire card for under $30
and install it. You will be much happier to download the files this way.
To add on to this there is a difference between USB 1 and 2, USB 2 could
handle the video but I doubt your camera has a USB 2 port/hook up. As far as
I know only the higher end cameras do but Firewire is the way to go. One
word of caution though there are different pins for Firewires so your cord
will need to what ever the card is and what ever the camera is. The one with
extra pins has a power source and can cause damage if it sparks burning out
either the camera or PC(or so I have been told). Do your homework first.