On 02 Apr 2003 22:57:13 GMT, eastman123@aol.com (Eastman123) wrote:

>Could someone please explain how firewire works? I'm a little confused. I

>have a motherboard with a firewire connection. I also have adobe premiere and

>am ready to buy a Digital 8 camera (so I can still use S video) with a firewire

>connection. Can I just plug in the firewire from the camera to the computer

>and capture it through Adobe Premiere (6.5) onto my hard drive.

Yes.

>How much space

>will I need and what about compression. Thanks so much for any input.

>Carmen Eastman

A bit less than 13-gigs/hour, and the video is already

compressed 5:1 and digitized on the tape, ready to

transfer to an HD, using Premiere... If you do not have

NTFS-formatted drives, though, you will be limited to

a 2-gig file-size limit (9:25), so you may need to

bring in video in pieces and assemble them in Premiere...