Requirements: A Digital Camcorder, a Pinnacle firewire card and Studio DV from pinnacle.

The first things to do

• Verify that the source video is connected to the Studio DV jack.
• When you have start Studio dv go to capture by clicking on capture in the menu bar.

Start capture

1. Choose a quality. If you chose Full quality you will needs a very big harddrive, if you chose Preview quality you have to have a video tape that has a counter.
If you want to make some own changes like change the solution just go to the settings beside the start capture button.

2. Start capturing and choose where to save the capturing.
When you press okey capturing will start. Remember that the Video for Windows does not accept captured video more than 20minutes.
When you want to stop capturing you just click on the same place that you clicked to start the capturing.

Now can you edit the "captured" video or just directly convert the video to VCD/SVCD/DVD/Divx.

Thnx to Helmut for this Guide

Problems:
Dv switch Problem (if you dont have studio dv installed download this file)