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MozartMan wrote on 7/8/2008, 10:39 AM
If you are looking for PC firewire card any firewire card should work. Just make sure it is IEEE 1394 OHCI Compliant Host Controller
corug7 wrote on 7/8/2008, 10:59 AM
What are you capturing? HDV can be ingested with a firewire cable between the camera and your computer. If you are looking at capturing analog HD signals, you will most likely be looking at cards starting in the $1000 range. I think some of the users on this forum have had luck with BMD offerings.

The Canopus card you mention is standard def only.
JulianCH wrote on 7/8/2008, 11:31 AM
I plan to capture from a Sony HDR FX1 HDV camera through firewire
to a Canopus ADVC1394 IEEE 1394 with OHCI Compliant Host Controller. Reading these here, I understand that it should work.
I will try it, thank you a lot for answers.
John_Cline wrote on 7/8/2008, 2:25 PM
Julian,

Basically any IEEE-1394 (Firewire) card will work. You are merely transferring data from the camera to the hard drive and there is no video quality difference between any of the Firewire cards. Cards that use the Texas Instruments (TI) IEEE-1394 chip are known to be a little more reliable.

John
blink3times wrote on 7/8/2008, 2:29 PM
A fire wire card is all you need which costs a whopping 20 or 30 dollars.