Hi David, If you're using firewire to transfer the video to your machine you could try out dvgrab:
*linux*.die.net/man/1/*dvgrab* I do a lot of video editing and I've used this before when I don't want to watch the video as it's transferred from my camera to my desktop. Regards, Patrick -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html