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I need to capture some early HD footage from a lot of older miniDV tapes and this camera outputs via Firewire. I would really rather just buy an adapter to bridge between the Firewire and the USB port on the comp to make life easier, but I can't find any model that has even remotely decent reviews, which seems odd. Am I going to have to buy a PCI card to install for a month while doing this? If so, any recommendation on brands?

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(Vantec, Syba, Rosewill, etc.) Quality of capture for this project is fairly important. IEEE1394 (it's only 'Firewire(tm)' if it's implemented with an Apple-approved chipset in a Mac) makes a different approach to a serial bus than USB does. Therefore some IEEE1394 capabilities plain cannot be done over USB.

A USB adapter cannot possibly work for all cases. I wouldn't worry about quality - DV is DV. The 'D' bit gives it away. You don't specify what motherboard (or PC) you have. Many have IEEE1394 already and just need the header filling with some ports.

If not, then yes, the best solution is a PCI or PCI-express card. They're not expensive, not difficult to fit and not difficult to install and they're going to work. You don't specify what motherboard (or PC) you have. Many have IEEE1394 already and just need the header filling with some ports. If not, then yes, the best solution is a PCI or PCI-express card. They're not expensive, not difficult to fit and not difficult to install and they're going to work.Sorry, it's an older board: MSI Z77A-GD65 Didn't think to see if it was built-in after not seeing the header, from the spec sheets seems I wasn't lucky though.

Oh well, will go with the card install. Used to like doing that all the time, now I just groan about the hassle, guess I got lazy. > Therefore some IEEE1394 capabilities plain cannot be done over USB. For example, a 1394 device has DMA access to the host's physical memory, and 1394 devices can offer physical address space that's accessible to the host. USB just doesn't have those concepts.

It would be like trying to present an opera (sound and vision) using Morse code. If somehow you had a machine with FireWire but no USB, something that plugged into your FireWire port and gave you a USB female 'A' connector would be possible (but it would need a bus driver in the OS). The other way around. The building blocks just aren't there in USB. Someone did make DV-to-USB adapters that supposedly let you do what you're intending. How to flash a video card for mac. It was not a generalized FireWire interface; it was useful only for connecting to DV cameras. However the product was short-lived and got very poor reviews, which didn't surprise me.