Video camera help needed: Tape to computer

[-Sarah-]

Hi folks,
I have a Canon HV30 HD video camera. I have made some videos and would like to put them on the computer for editing. It says in the instruction manual that I need a firewire cable and port which I do but they don't give any other explanation as the camera didn't come with any editing software. I have tried with Windows media player and also Wax and come across the same problem with both in that it opens a box for me to select where I want to extract the media from but the camera is not in my "my computer" menu for selection. The computer makes the du-doo noise that the camera has been recognised as being attached. I don't have any experience with firewire but should it be the same case as using USB and come up in "my computer"?
Thanks for any help on the matter

[suzy]

Hi Sarah, I asked a simelar question a few weeks ago and found these guy's in Glasgow http://www.transfervideo.co.uk/ I havn't sent my video yet so don't know what there like. Suzy

[dx100uk]

seems like you are not alone:

http://uk.search.yahoo.com/search?vc=&p=Canon+HV30+HD+video+camera+firewire+drivers&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8&fr=yfp-t-702

dx

[Leanne]

What about one of these?

http://www.iwantoneofthose.com/video-2-pc/index.html

[jimbews]

What about one of these?

http://www.iwantoneofthose.com/video-2-pc/index.html

No doubt will be much lower quality than the camera is capable of providing.
It's a composite video or S-video. If you compare connecting TV devices with composite video and RGB you will likely see RGB as much better. And the HD from the camera will be much better than RGB. I've never been able to see any difference in quality between composite video and S-video.

I've had similar problems with a Panasonic camcorder with a PC, but it works flawlessy connecting it to a DVD/HardDisk recorder.