Newbie 0 #1 August 16, 2005 So i edit my stuff on a Apple with Final Cut Pro, but was looking just to do some simpler stuff on the PC, which would be easier if i wanted to share smaller projects quickly. Problem is, i had the motherboard replaced a few months back and the new one was not compatible with my firewire port so i told the guy just to leave the firewire port off as i would never need it. Well that was dumb as now im thinking i would like to capture to the home PC but don't think i can just via USB can i? I think i need the firewire port right? "Skydiving is a door" Happythoughts Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dragon2 2 #2 August 16, 2005 Yes. You can buy a firewire pci card though. ciel bleu, Saskia Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Newbie 0 #3 August 16, 2005 Thanks for the quick reply. Do you know if there is any degradation or what the minus points are to capturing via USB over firewire? Thanks "Skydiving is a door" Happythoughts Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mccordia 74 #4 August 16, 2005 Or buy a good external Hard-Drive 40/80/250 GB harddrives are not that expensive anymore, and you can hook em up to your pc via USB, but most have a firewire input on the drive itself..JC FlyLikeBrick I'm an Athlete? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dragon2 2 #5 August 16, 2005 The footage you can import through USB is compressed a great deal. Garbage really, for editing. The only thing USB is useful for is for downloading photo's. ciel bleu, Saskia Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dragon2 2 #6 August 16, 2005 QuoteOr buy a good external Hard-Drive 40/80/250 GB harddrives are not that expensive anymore, and you can hook em up to your pc via USB, but most have a firewire input on the drive itself.. I have 2 HD's that have both USB2 and firewire, but they both won't pass on firewire connections while connected to the pc through USB. ciel bleu, Saskia Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mccordia 74 #7 August 17, 2005 QuoteQuoteOr buy a good external Hard-Drive 40/80/250 GB harddrives are not that expensive anymore, and you can hook em up to your pc via USB, but most have a firewire input on the drive itself.. I have 2 HD's that have both USB2 and firewire, but they both won't pass on firewire connections while connected to the pc through USB. That sucks... Do you know if that also goes for external HD's with firewire+network-capability? But a side question...I don't know about MACs, but for PC's a seperate card with a firewire slot only costs 15 bucks or so... Can't you just slot in a firewire-card on your Mac as well? Or is the motherboard without extra slots?JC FlyLikeBrick I'm an Athlete? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
newshooter12 0 #8 August 17, 2005 i've seen that for some video edit software that they prefer to have the source & video drives on seperate buses. so having two or more video drives chained together should work, but once you cross over into putting the cam/deck on the same chain the throughput isn't great enough to get the video into the computer as well as back to the drive at the same time. specifically avid likes to have your normal operational drive, a firewire source on one bus and the drive (firewire, internal or otherwise) on another bus. i believe there are communications that run along the firewire cable, beyond the data, as well & i'm not sure that a single bus can talk with multiple devices simultaenously anyway. as an aside my brother is looking into getting a powerbook for freelance work & found out that it'll need to have a seperate pcmcia card to keep the source on a different bus from an external drive. so it's not necessarily just a pc thing, but software related too. matt Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dragon2 2 #9 August 17, 2005 I have great result editing on my laptop with the camera routed through the same firewire HD I'm editing from. This works better (ie no dropped frames) then working with the pcmcia card for the HD and the internal firewire port for the camera! Surprised me actually, but it works fine, at least on this laptop and on my previous one. I use premiere, maybe avid is more demanding. ciel bleu, Saskia Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
newshooter12 0 #10 August 17, 2005 nice... what HD and laptop are you using?? i've got premiere my notebook & need to get an external drive eventually. thanks. matt Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dragon2 2 #11 August 17, 2005 Got a Packerd Hell Easynote now (don't buy this one), with a maxtor one touch 160 gb 7200 rpm drive and a seperate case and IDE HD (250 gb 7200 rpm). the Maxtor's heavy and expensive, the separate solution is way cheaper and you can chose any brand you want. There's even a way now to get SATA HD's for external use, for a pc, but that's only any good if you're not sharing that hd with another pc let alone laptop because hardly anyone has external SATA... ciel bleu, Saskia Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
newshooter12 0 #12 August 17, 2005 thanks for the info. i'm thinking about getting my brother to build an external firewire drive for me. the enclosures are pretty cheap and the prices of drives have come down quite a bit too. he's in the process of putting together a 1TB 4 drive removable enclosure that has 2 chained raid drives and 1 SATA drives for an AVID system because they regularly fill up the nearly 1 TB they already have. needless to say i don't think i need that much space. matt Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
