Capture through firewire card

hello friends,
I want to capture video using firewire port in my laptop. Is
it possible to capture through firewire card?... If so how can i do
it?. Please help me ....
regards

When we start the Flash Media Encoder, there is an option for
"Microsoft DV" and we just use that.
If this doesn't appear as an option for you, download
WebCamDV from a company called Orange Micro. The program is only
like $20, but it makes your 1394 port look like a webcam. It will
then appear as a 'device' in encoder and you can use it for audio
and video.
ps - we are using a Windows PC not a MAC for this.

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No, capturing DV or HDV via firewire is a bit for bit transfer of the original recording ... zero loss.

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is there a way to adjust the brightness as you capture footage through a firewire? does anyone know?

You cannot adjust it as you capture via firewire. That is a straight digital transfer. You can only adjust after you capture. Or if you had a capture card and the deck allowed for brightness to be adjusted upon output.
But via firewire...no.
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hii there!
first let mi make you understand what we people are doing ....
We people want to capture the Mini-DV file directly through the 1394 firewire card from the sony camcorder in to the MPEG2
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contact: [email protected]

I understand your pain. See BUG ID 4640032: JMF does not support DSVD encoding
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4640032
Add your vote, maye Sun will hear!

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Premiere Pro CS 6 will not capture 1440 x 1080i footage through firewire.

Every time and without exception, whenever I attempt to capture 1440 x 1080i footage from a Sony camera, the application will crash and close.
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under "Options" I choose a standard
Sony device being that my camera
(HVR-Z1U) is not listed.
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ShockWave101010 wrote:
Thank you Bill, the external HD is connected through high speed usb.
HDV through firewire is not supported. Hard to believe but the response came from Adobe.
Ashamed because I love their products. Oh well.
Judging by the approximate release date of that Radeon HD 6770M (mid-2011) that best USB speed that you have is USB 2. That is not adequate speed wise for any video editing.
I do not know who you talked to at Adobe but here is a paragraph from CS6 help: Adobe Premiere Pro Help | Capture HD, DV, or HDV video:
Capture DV or HDV video
You can capture audio and video from a DV or HDV device by connecting the device to your computer with a FireWire cable. Premiere Pro records the audio and video signal to the hard disk and controls the device through the FireWire port.

Anyone capturing SD video using a firewire card successfully?

If so, can you please tell me what particular firewire card you have been using. I have just ordered a Belkin Firewire card (Texas instrumwents) on account of my existing firewire card not being able to capture. I have tried changing over to the Legacy driver - still does not work. My specs are:
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12 gigs Ram
i7 930
gfx 470 graphics card.
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Hi,
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pcmcia is an card slot. If you have a 12" PB you may not have one.
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ps
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Might work then again it might not. Have not heared of any positive results. In other words imo its a waste of money.
You need a real firewire connection.

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I am sending the "OUT" of my VCR to the "IN" of my mini DV camera to capture VHS tapes into Premiere through firewire.
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Thanks!

Hello from Virginia,
What are your MBPro specs and are they compatible with the card you purchased.
I capture through the onboard FW800 port and use an Expresscard/34 card which gives me two eSata connections to my external HDs...works great.
Give us more details about the laptop and the card...make, model, compatibility...etc.
K

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I am trying to capture using firewire 800 to 400 adaptor through a Sony HDV VTR. The VTR is not recognizing can some body help me solve this problem.
I am using FCP7 and IMAC with 10.6.8 version os
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Let's start with basics.
Does your computer recognize that there is a VTR attached?
• Open up system profiler>Hardware>FireWire. Does your machine show up?
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HI, jumie. What you propose may work fine. Go ahead and clone your internal drive to an external drive, then give your plan a try. In the worst case, the computer will simply ignore the external drive and boot to the internal drive instead. No harm will be done.
Or could I just boot the computer with an external HD using the TiBook's own FireWire port and then run the audio through the PCMCIA-slot via FireWire?
This is a pretty safe bet. It's certainly possible to boot a Tibook to an external FW drive connected through the built-in FW port, unless you're unlucky enough to have bought a non-bootable external drive enclosure (there still are some). In that case you'll probably want to buy a different enclosure for your external drive — making sure the new enclosure uses an Oxford 911 FireWire bridge, which will ensure that it's bootable.
Assuming your drive is bootable, the next question will be whether your audio hardware runs OK through the PC-card FW adapter. If it does, you should be set.
It is not possible to boot any Mac running OS 9 or OS X from any USB device. So don't bother to try booting from a USB drive, or from a combination FW & USB drive through a USB connection.

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The computer I was using for our broadcast did not have any Firewire ports, so I added a 3 port Firewire card. When I have 2 DV cameras hooked up to it VC3 will only recognize one and the other will be black.
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Thanks for the reply. Just a follow up, I added a second Firewire card and all is well. No problems using to DV Camcorders now.

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