Driftwood mounts - update

[dsm]

I think I am dealing with a simliar problem. The part that fits the port on the camera has the other end looking for a "firewire" inside the computer, and I was told this afternoon that this means I have to get a "firewire card" for the computer. This is turning into as bad of a nightmare as my original problem: the Win98 toughbook that died and took my Kodak program with it *grrr*

So anyway, I memorized all this "firewire" gobbledygook and got hold of the resident services gal in charge of our computer room and we both searched high and low for a computer with a "firewire" port to no avail. She couldn't believe it because the camera set-up has been used by another resident, but somehow there has to be a regular USB connection and the guy at the computer store said I cannot get the right camera-end connected to a USB end (which I do not believe, but cannot argue because I don't know). The camera is a Panasonic digital video.

Anyway, she said she can't do anything about it until the 15th so I am back on "hold"


I bought myself a carnivorous plant for consolation.

[cindiras]

What type of memory card does the camera use? If it is removable from the camera, You can get card readers that hook up to USB ports of your computer at just about any big electronics store.

[dsm]

It uses videotape and a card. I finally did get it hooked up, via the firewire into the ^&%$#@! macintosh.

NOW I have the movie saved in a format ONLY Macintosh can read!
Youtube puked it out and the new video site I'm using wouldn't take it, either. But somewhere in the Macintosh universe there is a site called "iweb" and I got it to load there, but closed the damn Macintosh screen too soon and now cannot remember how to get back in, in order to link to it, and none of the references to it on the internet gave me any clue how to find the "page" I supposedly set up.

Here is one bit I found on the firewire/USB thing at "wisegeek": http://74.125.45.104/search?q=cache:...nk&cd=13&gl=us

I have both stills and video in the camera. I finally messed around on the macintosh long enough to find a "Windows" file saver ( .wmv) and I THINK I saved a couple of graphics as a video in that transferable format, but the camera is now down for battery recharge, so I cannot experiment with the images.

They designed this camera with ONLY battery, no direct power supply, so the damn thing has to go nappy-time!

All I need to do is find a USB connection for the camera. I will haunt some similar place until I find it. And I will get a second battery.

Gawd I miss my old set-up! I won't even throw the pieces away because I have the completely irrational idea they will somehow come back to life.