I'd like to e-mail the 30 sec movie to someone. Thanks!

If you have a firewire connection, check out kino, go to www kinodv.org. I use this on my suse 10.0 running on an old pentium III at 800 Mhz. Not fast, but it never dropped a frame.

Good luck.

There are many video converting softwares available, kino and LiVES are well known and wood do the job i think, but www.kde-apps.org have a good selection of front ends using various backends, could give there a try, if you use KDE, gnome-apps.org i would think have their own selection aswel.

Is that what firewire does? Convert to mpeg?

Not loaded>>ieee 1394. Whats with that?...LOL...I even tried running kino from root. Made no difference. Do I need a special card??? Hope not. Please tell me how to get ieee 1394 loaded and running.Thanks

Em well once you have your firewire (ieee 1394) camera and wire all plugged into the computer, then you will need to make sure that it is support in your kernel i would have thought? maby im rong there, or it mite just apear as a removable drive on your distro. Once it is rekonised then make sure you have firewire enabled, i think, then set up the right in kino and it should be as easy as that, i have never used kino reli before.

If it is reconised as removavle media just copy the file, into you ~/ i think would be best, then just use a video converting programme or get a front end for one. there are various front ends for mencoder that would do just great here.

I remember noticing that Firewire support wasn't part of my default install. YaST and the install DVD will be your friends and fix the problem.