• Blackmagic Design

  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
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  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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