On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 18:16:03 +0000 (UTC), "Maurice" <maurice_vidents@btconnect.com> wrote:

>If your camera and Studio have firewire then you should be able to capture

>your movie footage directly into Studio. If not you may have to use Y/C or

>Composite depending on which matching ports your equipment DOES have.

>

>As for the stills the normal route is USB out from the camera (I assume it

>has that) and, after loading your camera software and drivers, it should

>appear as a device which you can then access to get at the pictures which,

>on selection, should appear in a paint/picture viewing programme and, of

>course, can be saved to hard disk

No need for the software (if you have a decent photo

editor, and also want to be able to modify images) - the

USB-connected camera or reader appears as a new drive under

"my computer" (PC), and from there, you can open or drag

onto the desktop, etc. the images contained...