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  • What Firewire 800 card is best

    Posted by Ed Stevens on June 17, 2005 at 11:50 am

    My SYSTEM

    MAC dual G5 2.5 gig. 4.5 gb RAM. OS 10.3.8
    Blackmagic Decklink Extreme card v4.8b
    FCP 4.5 production Suite
    500GB G-Raid Firewire800
    Decks = Beta-SP, DVCpro, DigiBeta.
    Audio Mix = Mackie 1604 VLZpro

    I want to add another firewire 800/400 port. Which card is best?
    Thanks in advance for help

    Kevin Taylor replied 20 years, 10 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Bob Zelin

    June 17, 2005 at 1:06 pm

    these cards are all pretty much the same. Didn’t G-Tech provide you with a FW800 card? Most people use the Lacie FW800 PCI card (about $60), but they are all pretty much the same.

    bob Zelin

  • Kevin Taylor

    June 20, 2005 at 5:27 am

    A friend of mine just sent back his LaCie card complaining of serious crashes with his Kona2 card every time he accessed an audio file. He’s thinking the card was a 33MHz card and was bottoming out his bus.

    Kevin Taylor
    The Malabar Front
    Atlanta Georgia
    http://www.malabarfront.com

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