Advantages: Cheap, provided Firewire cable and non-linear editting software Disadvantages: Editing software is basic
I bought this because it was the cheapest firewire card that I could find in PCWorld for £19.99. I wanted it for my JVC DR-G33 DV camera so that I could transfer the video from it to the computer for editing. The card is used to add Firewire to your computer. You may already have firewire on your computer therefore you dont need this.
Firewire is used much in the same way as USB, however firewire is much faster than USB version1. Digital video cameras ... ...because firewire and iPods where developed by apple.
If you have ever installed a PCI card before then installing this will be the same. Easy once you know how and have the confidence. The manual gives really good directions on how to do this if it is your first time.
Installing drivers was easy - it was detected by my win2000 and installed them straight away via the wizard.
The provided firewire cable appears to be of hight quality.
The bundled ...
kangaroo_kingmonkey 07.01.2005
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