Computer set up for video capture

I believe there are special setting of the computer for video capture. I have done these in the past but cannot remeber how or find any info. One setting was to send the data form the camcorder straight to the hard disc. Can anyone help me, please ?
johnjep

If you're capturing from a tape-based camcorder, you should capture over FireWire.
For hard drive camcorders, you'll need to use the Media Downloader built into Premiere Elements to get the video files.
Current computers can usually capture with no special set-up. Although Vista can use a bit of tweaking, as you can see if you click on the FAQs listed to the right of this forum.
If you've got a second hard drive, you can get the most efficient capture by capturing to it rather than your C drive.

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probit wrote:
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