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:
Adobe PPro Cs 5.5
Windows 7 64 ultimate
12 gigs Ram
i7 930
gfx 470 graphics card.
If anybody else has been having this problem and resolved it, I would love to know. Thanks in advance.

Hi,
I have just tried with my old Pana NV- GS200 and it works fine. win 7 64 bit cs5.5. lenovo w701 lap top
Darren

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does anyone know if there is a way to do a s
creen capture of an HP8562A spectrum analyzer using
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Iason Vassiliou wrote:
> Hi,
>
> does anyone know if there is a way to do a s
> creen capture of an HP8562A spectrum analyzer using
> the GPIB-PCMCIA card? In the programming manual
> I can only find how to print/plot the screen, is there a way to
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