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Hi, I have an older Sony HDR-HC3 which I bought brand new about 7 or 8 years ago. I know I could use an upgrade but the camera still works nicely and takes great video. Anyway, for all these years I've been happily capturing video using my firewire cable. However, firewire seems to be getting less and less common and I was looking for a way to capture the video onto my shiny new laptop that has USB 3.0 but no firewire.
China Easycap 4 CHANNEL USB DVR Video Audio Capture Adapter USB 2.0 Card TV USB DVR Video Audio Capture Adapter is supplied by ☆ Easycap 4 CHANNEL USB DVR Video Audio Capture Adapter USB 2.0 Card TV manufacturers. Surveillance Software Feature: 4 screen display modes are available. Jan 29, 2010 Windows 7 (64-bit) cannot find a driver for 'USB 2.0 Video Capture Controller' and therefore I am unable to install my EasyCap USB 2.0 Video Capture device.
So, I spent a hard earned dollar (with free shipping from China) on a firewire to USB cable in hopes that it would work the same as my firewire cable. The cable fits perfectly into the firewire port on my cam but the computer (Windows 8) does not recognize the camera. To be clear, I am NOT trying to transfer video from the USB port on the camera.
I know that port will only transfer stills. I am using the firewire port on the camera with a cable that has a USB plug at the other end.
My question is if my camera will support video transfer via this method (perhaps with a new driver download or 3rd party software solution) or did I waste $1 and am stuck having to use my old computer downstairs to capture video? Click to expand.Short answer? -- no, it won't work. Slightly longer one. Although USB - and especially USB3 - has a fast enough data transfer speed to perform this function, the data format is not suitable. Firewire allows for a continuous data stream to be generated, and this is essential for the real time transfer of DV tape video data. USB utilises a 'burst' data format.
With 'gaps' in the data strteam. So it's not suitable for DV video tape transfer. I'm afraid you're stuck with using the old computer downstairs to transfer the video. Metus Delphi With 500 Free Bots Agario. (note I say 'transfer' rather than 'capture'. Using Firewire to transfer data from the tape to the computer simply copies the data stream exactly, with no quality loss at all. Video 'capture' will involve a process that will convert video data 'on the fly', with some quality loss, although hopefully not much with decent equipment) One final point.
Firewire ports can be prone to getting 'fried' especailly when 'hot swapped'. Probably safer to connect your cable with both the camera and the PC switched off. I'm not sure that plugging in to a USB port at one end is a good idea either.still, no need to do that again!
There are FireWire cards that can be plugged into laptops, either Express or PCMCIA. I was involved in this problem on another site and the person was using an Express card that seemed to work. IEEE 1394 to USB have been proven to be a total waste of money - Sorry. I bought a new computer last year. We had to fit a FireWire card into it (and sort out a driver that worked). So it may be worth trying a FireWire plug in card or stick with your old PC and transfer your file to laptop. One of the processes carried out by video editors is to break the continuous stream of data into useable shots.
This is normally done by using the start and stop in a shot as a splitting point. Both Pinnacle and VideoStudio refer to this as 'capture'. As I have both a DV camera and a camera with SD card, I have to use both methods of video transfer.
Welcome to the forum No1uNo As both rogs & Terfyn have already said your $1 firewire to USB cable was a waste of money - thankfully only $1 though Not only is firewire a constant transfer rate and USB burst rate, but they also send different types of signals that would require hardware to convert them to be able to work together. So there is no possible way for the cable to work. Adding firewire to a laptop can only be done if it has an Expresscard slot (or the older PCMCIA/Cardbus), but these are getting less common now so there is a good chance your new laptop does not have one of these. If not then there is no other connection on a laptop that is fast enough to accept a firewire adapter, so you will be stuck using the old PC. I have always used the term 'Capture' when refering to getting video off a tape and onto a PC, and don't consider capture to involve any data conversion and/or compression - although it can do, especially if using the likes of an EasyCap analogue audio & video to USB adapter to capture from VHS etc. I think of 'Transfer' more a drag & drop process similar to when copying files off a memory card to the PC. Thanks for all those responses guys and thanks for the warm welcome.
I just kind of figured that since the cable was available that it should be possible. Strange that a cable would be manufactured for a process that has no possibility of working. Anyhow, it's not that big of a chore to do it the old way but it would have been nice if the new idea would have worked. At least it was only $1. And I haven't seen a PCMICA slot in many years. Not since my Pentium 1, 133 MHz laptop with a 120mb hard drive. Didn't know those were still around.
Drivers Laser Mfd 6050 Rockwell. I have also used analogue capture since the camera I had before this one was an analogue Sony 8mm camcorder. In fact, my computer downstairs still has the analogue capture card since that camera still works and I have some old home movies shot on it that I haven't gotten around to transferring to DVD yet. We have had DV for about 17 years now, so legacy is one word for it! A shame that so many cameras shipped with it, and some still do, yet the hardware to connect is drying up. Most videographers have now gone over to SD / SSD solutions, so the requirement for the input is reducing. Be aware that Windows 7 does not play nicely with some Express port DV cards, particularly with video.
I spent hours trying to get one to work. It would see and control the camcorder, but would only play a second or so of video before cutting out.
We ended up with a different type of card and this happily worked. We bought an older Dell laptop with a firewire input for £50 and this has one function: to capture DV into our edit suite!