I just purchased a Panasonic PV-GS500 video camera (miniDV; 3 CCDs; 16:9) and _assumed_ it would also allow me to do analog transfer of my VHS videos. I discovered today that it does not have the proper ports. (Panasonic apparently removed them after last year's models.) My old VCR is very basic and has no S-Video out port, just the Red/Yellow/White connections.
My computer is an iMac G5; the software part of this equation is not a problem.
I have a nice Sony home theater system that has all sorts of ports, including S-Video. I wonder if I could possibly route the video signal from the VCR through the home theater receiver and then into the camera via the S-Video port, then into the computer via the firewire port???
Thanks, Be