A digital camcorder with analogue in is what I think you meant to say Mark, and with Firewire out so it can be connected to your computer. The digital camcorder acts as an analogue to digital convertor, so the analogue signal travels from either your analogue VHS deck or camcorder to the Mini DV camcorder and then out of the Mini DV and into your computer using the Firewire cable.

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