Need some recommendations.

[Soundmanred]

I've been looking at some devices to hook up my Canon ZR830 miniDV video camera up to my PC to edit and eventually burn to DVD footage I've shot.
I'd like some suggestions from people who may have used such devices and their good points/shortcomings.
Thanks!

 

[gsellis]

A firewire card or port. That is what you need. Once you have firewire, all will be good.*

* - A Texas Instruments chipset on the firewire card makes it really good as VIA chipsets can have issues with some editors and camera combinations.

 

[AnitaPeterson]

A slightly different way would be to get a standalone DVD recorder, connect the camera to the recorder (preferably via FireWire), burn the footage to DVD-RW at the highest possible quality, and you can later cut/paste/edit the resulting MPEG2 files with VideoReDo and make a much better DVD (customized menus and such) with the DVD authoring app of your choice.

The advantage would be that you won't need the ridiculous amounts of HDD space for storing .avi's resulting from DV capture... and you can use the standalone for other purposes as well.