analog to the computer?

[Mackle]

I bought the canon MV630i video camera, and I was wandering if there were any experts that could help me out.

Is it possible to record footage on the camcorder cassette tape and then get that on to the computer? I can only get the images i put on the memory card on to the computer.

If this is not possible, I guess you have to edit your tapes using VCR's in analog?

An optional item I dont have yet is the DV 4 pin cord, will this allow me to download a whole cassette on to the computer? Is it possible to edit it on the computer then get it back on to the cassette? Or must I find another way to get it back to analog?

[stduc]

I have an MV450i, which I assume is similar to yours in providing DV in/out. If so, you can copy digitally between the camera and a computer. To do this you need.
A firewire card/motherboard in your computer
A firewire cable (this should have been supplied with the camera)
Digital editing software, such as pinnacle or Adobe premier.
With all the above you can caputure your movies digitally, edit them digitally and then convert them to an AVI and save on a CD - or burn your own DVD (assuming you have the requisite hardware) or copy the finished movie back to a fresh tape on the camera.

Have fun!

[atotos]

if you have your footage on a VHS tape, you should have a video capture card and audio in cables as well. I used to use an S-video cable to hook up the video player to the pc. Any good video capture card will come with the necessary cables and instuctions.
As software I used multimedia studio pro v.5 which was less expensive than Adobe. Search ebay or yahoo auctions for good deals on slightly old software.
MSP lets you capture video, add credits, tweak audio as well as the video timeline.
I found the best compression/maximum compatibility for different operating systems was AVI compressed as Cinepak.

Hope this helps :)

BTW, this was several years ago, so I had no firewire ports and firewire was still pretty expensive...