Firewie to USB Cable

[Angelo Lorenzo]

I don’t know anyone personally, but I would be aware of two things:

1. Firewire supplies 12v while USB supplies 5v. This probably won’t be an issue with cameras as they’ll use battery power but I wouldn’t try plugging in any port-powered firewire 400 hard drives.

2. It would come down to a driver issue. If your cable doesn’t come with software, I would doubt that it works. Firewire is the cable used for the IEEE 1394 interface which has instructions that multimedia equipment like video cameras use to communicate with your computer.

I’ve seen a few “conversion” cables on Amazon and the like but they all rate very poorly so YMMV.

https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/343433-Capturing-DV-camcorder-to-laptop-w-o-firewire-port is worth looking at.

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[Dave Morrison]

Nope, can’t do it. They are two completely different data transport protocols.

[Anthony Burokas]

Yea. Different protocols, different drivers, etc.
You can’t have a USB interface emulated over Firewire and if it were even possible, the demand is so low as to never make it happen.

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[Shane Ross]

There are FireWire to Thunderbolt adapters. If you are talking about Mac computers.

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[Mike Smith]

You could go for an expansion card like (there are lots of others)
according to what expansion potential your machine has.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Startech-com-ExpressCard-FireWire-Laptop-Adapter/dp/B003N3J354
or https://accessories.euro.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=uk&l=en&s=dhs&cs=ukdhs1&sku=500-10056&~ck=baynoteSearch&baynote_bnrank=0&baynote_irrank=0&ST=Cables%20-%20I/O,LPB&dgc=ST&cid=41141&lid=1069630&acd=239715600820560

[Ann Bens]

If you are talking PC waste of money, does not work properly.

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