Recommended Firewire Ports

5 Jul 2005 9:45 PM

estevancarlos@gmail.com

I'm trying to get started some basic video capturing and editing. Can
anyone make some recommendations on basic firewire ports that may or
may not be in combination with other ports. Anything around $150 or
any company that is most reliable? I'm using a Sony trv350. Thanks.

5 Jul 2005 10:00 PM

Andy Hill

"estevancar***@gmail.com" <estevancar***@gmail.com> wrote:
>I'm trying to get started some basic video capturing and editing. Can
>anyone make some recommendations on basic firewire ports that may or
>may not be in combination with other ports. Anything around $150 or
>any company that is most reliable? I'm using a Sony trv350. Thanks.
>

$150? Unless I'm missing the whole point of the question, perfectly acceptable
PCI Firewire cards are available in the neighborhood of 25 $US . Sorry, don't
have any recommendations, but I've yet to have one *not* work.

5 Jul 2005 11:05 PM

Gene E. Bloch

On 7/5/2005, Andy Hill managed to type:

> "estevancar***@gmail.com" <estevancar***@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm trying to get started some basic video capturing and editing. Can
>> anyone make some recommendations on basic firewire ports that may or
>> may not be in combination with other ports. Anything around $150 or
>> any company that is most reliable? I'm using a Sony trv350. Thanks.
>>
> $150? Unless I'm missing the whole point of the question, perfectly
> acceptable PCI Firewire cards are available in the neighborhood of 25 $US .
> Sorry, don't have any recommendations, but I've yet to have one *not* work.

Actually, I think $25 is high. $10-$15 US seems possible...

http://shop3.outpost.com/product/3864737?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG

is $15; the other three associated with that are $20 or $30, so really
I'm a bit too optimistic :-)

On the other hand, I spent under 30 seconds finding that!

Gino

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5 Jul 2005 11:20 PM

Laurence Payne

On 5 Jul 2005 14:45:28 -0700, "estevancar***@gmail.com"
<estevancar***@gmail.com> wrote:

>I'm trying to get started some basic video capturing and editing. Can
>anyone make some recommendations on basic firewire ports that may or
>may not be in combination with other ports. Anything around $150 or
>any company that is most reliable? I'm using a Sony trv350. Thanks.

I don't think you could pay that much even if you had a Mac :-) A
little over 10% of that price will get you a pci card. A little more
for a laptop pcmcia card. But all modern laptops have Firewire
already :-)

6 Jul 2005 12:10 AM

estevanc...@gmail.com

Well, I guess meant one of those firewire and s-video cards or consumer
end video capturing things, but i might be way off with cost. I know a
simple firewire port is reasonably afforadable. What slightly higher
end devices would anyone here recommend?

6 Jul 2005 3:49 PM

Laurence Payne

On 5 Jul 2005 17:10:43 -0700, "estevanc***@gmail.com"
<estevancar***@gmail.com> wrote:

>Well, I guess meant one of those firewire and s-video cards or consumer
>end video capturing things, but i might be way off with cost. I know a
>simple firewire port is reasonably afforadable. What slightly higher
>end devices would anyone here recommend?

For what function? A simple Firewire port gets dv in and out of your
camera. What else do you require?

6 Jul 2005 5:49 PM

PTravel

"estevanc***@gmail.com" <estevancar***@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Well, I guess meant one of those firewire and s-video cards or consumer
> end video capturing things, but i might be way off with cost. I know a
> simple firewire port is reasonably afforadable. What slightly higher
> end devices would anyone here recommend?

There is absolutely no reason to get a "higher end" firewire port. A 1394
port is nothing more than a data port, just like a serial, parallel or USB
port. All it does is pass data to the computer. As long as it is
OHCI-compliant, as $10 card will work exactly as well as a $150 card.

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6 Jul 2005 7:29 PM

Andy Hill

"estevanc***@gmail.com" <estevancar***@gmail.com> wrote:
>Well, I guess meant one of those firewire and s-video cards or consumer
>end video capturing things, but i might be way off with cost. I know a
>simple firewire port is reasonably afforadable. What slightly higher
>end devices would anyone here recommend?
>

OK, back up a bit. What do you want to do with this card? If you just want
to capture video from your TRV350, then a cheap-o Firewire card is all you need.
If you want to capture analog data from another source, then you're still
probably better off just getting a cheap-o Firewire card and using the TRV350 in
analog passthrough mode.

Now, if you've just got money to burn, put it towards a better camcorder -- the
TRV350 wasn't one of Sony's better efforts.