I have a Sony MiniDV camcorder with the usual Composite audio/stero/video, S-video and DV outlets, and a new Lenovo (IBM) T60P Thinkpad laptop with built-in ATI FireGL V3200 video card and WinDVD createor and player programs. The laptop only appears to have USB and a single microphone jack inputs, no DV-in or S-video or other video-in ports. It does have an empty slot for removable PCI cards.

How do I connect the Sony camcorder to the laptop so I can capture from DV tape and edit in the DVD program; through some kind of addon PCI card, or is there a USB connection possibility (even tough the Sony camcorder does not have any USB ports)?

Just to clarify, I meant to say that the Lenovo T60P laptop has two empty slots for inserting removable Cards, one for an "Express Card" and one for either a 16-bit Type I or Type II PC Card.

Do they make such cards for conecting the Sony camcorder DV out so that it will communicate with my laptops internal ATI V3200 FireGL card?

You can get firwaire cards that will fit your machine, but for the money I would get something like this:

http://www.pinnaclesys.com/PublicSi...

Something like this would allow much more flexability.