Capture video from Sony DV video camera
 

FC6, kernel 2.6.20-1.2962.

lsusb displays the following for my Sony DCR-HC21 DV video camera:
Is there ANYTHING I can use (I know, get Firewire) to capture video from this USB device? All I want to do is upload video from the camera to the hard drive.

Thanks!

though I don't know this specific camera model I'd say - not possible.
Usually, if the camera has an usb port, it's used for live streaming (like a webcam). I'm not aware of any mini-dv cam, that can capture recorded video via usb. Or does this work in windows ?
Incidentally, firewire is absolutely uncomplicated in linux and should work out of the box (if you have a fw port that is ...).

The usb device is only to access to the to the movies or pictures on the memory stick.

must have firewire to capture the video to your computer.

FYI, just from trying several of the Linux based video editing and capturing tools, i have gone back to windows for 100% of my video editing. i use Adobe Premier 6.5 and Pro 2.0 (pro sucked balls big time) and they do the job 1000x better then anything i have found in the linux world. plus they just WORK.

It´s true that you have to do more in linux to edit a video.
First use Kino to capture from your camcorder
then use Cinelerra to edit your video
after rendering you have to create a DVD with Qdvdauthor
and at least you must burn the dvd with k3b
That´s the way how I edit my videos in linux.
All off the programs do there work without any problems. It´s not as easy as in windows but it´s free.
I don´t know what Premier costs but I know about Pinacle Studio. It costs about 130€ which is a lot of money. It´s a general problem of Linux. For every problem there are a lot of good programs but they can only do a part of that you want to do. In Windows you have only one program which does all the work. That´s also a reason why a lot of people are not using linux.

http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-25520528...4702827&sr=1-3

It is fully understandable that someone who paid 800 bucks on a software will continue using it ;)

Okay, that's what I expected. Thanks. Yes, I do this with wifey's Windows XP laptop, and it's easy. Hook up the camera via USB and viola'.
I'll have to spend the $ on a Firewire card. From everything I've read, IEEE-1394 easy on Linux.