capturing without an IEEE 1394 port?

[Brian Louis]

Composite is analog video, S-video is analog, and some component is analog.

[Carol Ann]

hey…looking back on some of my old video’s I really got a lot of stuff from this website..the video wall for one thing! The “bBay Productions” part where the fire cuts through. I definitely got that inspiration from this website.

Gosh there are quite frankly probably too many moments of inspiration I’ve had from this site and I’m just really happy that you guys continually help all us newbs out there 🙂

Good onya!

Carol Ann

[Brian Louis]

[Carol Ann] “Thinking back the guy did ask me the resolution and I did say 720 x 576…as that’s what it is…and I know that’s low res. and the dongle thing they’ve given me does say on the blurb it can handle that.”
720×576 is Pal SD DV(firewire), it can be either 16:9 or 4:3, and its fairly high resolution(over 500 tv lines) compared to composite(USB Dongle) and SD broadcast(270-340 tv lines), your PD150 will shoot in SD WS, although it does WS by cropping the video vertically, to get to a 16:9 aspect and DSPing it back to 720×576 since you’re in PAL land you have more vertical resolution so its not as soft as cropped video across the pond.

[Carol Ann]

It is a shocker that there’s no port….I couldn’t believe it when I realised. He sold it on it’s processing speed as it’s a quad processor with 4 Gb RAM…500 Gb hard drive..so I just thought that all sounded fantastic and based on any other laptop I’ve had (which I have managed to edit on) I expected it to fly along..and I daresay it would if I could just get the footage in it!

Have since been to speak to the guy who really doesn’t want to take the laptop back but is keen to resolve it. Does anyone know if there’s such a thing as a piece of equipment that could plug into the laptop via USB and convert from IEEE 1394 output from my camera but still give me digital quality when I’m capturing using Adobe Premiere Pro?

I guess if there is such a thing and the guy in the shop is willing to give me it for nothing then I’ll go with it..if not then I’ll hope he swaps the laptop for one that does have firewire.

Thanks again guys..what a saga.

carol Ann

[Carol Ann]

Also…I don’t even know…does an HP Pavilion Dv6 have a video capture card? That would be another point I could make which would deem it “not fit for the purpose”.

Thanks

Carol Ann

[Brian Louis]

[Carol Ann] “Also…I don’t even know…does an HP Pavilion Dv6 have a video capture card”
Sorry I didn’t notice this question, I’ve been rushing around the past week or so, No! it doesn’t have a video capture card, and without a express card slot you can’t add a capture device like a Matrox MX02 mini or it also doesn’t have a USB 3 port so adding a device like the BlackMagic Desigh Intensity pro shuttle is also out of the question, the way the current dv6 is configured it can not handle anything except newest tapeless consumer camcorders which transfer via USB or flash card readers, any tape camcorder are out of the questions, as a general purpose editing machine it is serverely limited to low quality usb capture devices

[Johannes Eidsheim]

I have a JVC GR-D270 Camcorder that stores the video on tape. It also has a memory card for still photos. The latter can be transfered to the PC via USB. The video must use Firewire. This seems to be the standard. It is with horror that I find out that practically all laptops on display for sale at the local Best Buy don’t have a Firewire port. Somhow it seems that there will have to be a market for an interface between the 1394 and USB3 since the latter only will be present on the next generation of Laptops. The nucks have also done away with the PCMCIA slot and thus preclude the use of the avaiable card that takes 3 1394 6 pin and one 4 pin Firewire cable input. Somebody is out to kill the video tape corders and fronting it with a saleman who is an ass. Go get your laptop exchanged. It is not fit for your purpose. Tell them I said so!

[Carol Ann]

Hi there,

I did return it and used the term “not fit for purpose” and they did let me exchange it. I have a Dell Studio now…i7..all good and has the much needed firewire port 🙂

Thanks for the advice

Carol Ann

[Edward Garren]

Is there a way capturing video through the USB port for version 1.0?