Firewire questions

[Graham Bernard]

Browsing? I wouldn’t.

Also, you may need to activate the LEGACY Drivers for the FireWire chipset, it has tripped many users of FW now on a Win7 operating system. It’s a very simple activation.

When capturing you’re need to select the correct stream: DV or HDV.

G

Video Content Creator and Potter
PC 7 64-bit 16gb * Intel® Core™i7-2600k Quad Core 3.40GHz * 2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 560 Ti
Cameras: Canon XF300 + PowerShot SX50HS Bridge

[Paul Gregory]

Is the Legacy driver or any other drivers etc. automatically added by Windows as a new device? Do I need any other software? I know that I can get second hand card cheaply but I don’t know if these usually come with drivers or software?

Thanks in advance

[Graham Bernard]

This is what I did:

1] Put FW card into PC

2] Open Device Manager in Win7 and navigate to the FW.

3] Apply LEGACY driver

Done!

And no, I didn’t have to search down the driver, it was part of the Win7 install. However Win7 does NOT apply this legacy driver when slotting-in the card so it has to be done this way, manually.

G

Video Content Creator and Potter
PC 7 64-bit 16gb * Intel® Core™i7-2600k Quad Core 3.40GHz * 2GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 560 Ti
Cameras: Canon XF300 + PowerShot SX50HS Bridge

[Scott Francis]

I have found that SVP doesn’t always play nice when trying to fly in from FW. I have actually had to use SVP9 to get it to work and when I open to capture video nothing is seen.

Not sure why, but this has been a problem for me since SVP10…

Good luck!

Xavier (Scott) Francis
Mind’s Eye Audio/Video Productions

[Stephen Mann]

Get Scenalyzer Live. It just works.

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com

[Paul Gregory]

I have just got a card which I can’t install before tomorrow. I’m puzzled that the card has 3 inputs as I can’t image anyone being able to record from 3 camcorders at once.

Once captured do I have to set the settings or will Vegas be able to set the output to match input as is now the case? If not what settings should one use? The tapes are Mini DV & a couple of High 8.

Thanks in advance

[Stephen Mann]

I’ve recorded two cameras at once, but I only had two cameras, but no doubt it would have handles three.
I once daisy-chained a camera and Firewire hard disk drive on a laptop with a single firewire port.
My Presonus DAW uses Firewire.
I can think of many times that I could use more than one Firewire port.
I never saw one, but I understand that there were some studio video monitors with Firewire ports.

Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com

[Scott Francis]

Yes FW is not exclusive to cameras. I have a Presonus sound card that uses this, there are/were tons of FW Hard drives over the years as well as other peripherals…

Xavier (Scott) Francis
Mind’s Eye Audio/Video Productions

[Larry Gibson]

I’m a month late reading this. Just wondered how it came out. If the 8mm is not digital 8,you will need another step. I haven’t captured any Hi-8 for a while, but it seems like I put it in a Digital-8 camcorder and it would play to the Vegas capture through fire wire.

Good Luck – Larry Gibson

[Paul Gregory]

I recalled that I had a Firewire on the front of the case but the ports on the front had been changed so I thought I needed a new card. I didn’t it seems that there was an old port include on back so I used that.

All of the taped recorded to timeline so far are Digital 8. I have no 8MM tapes. I have some mini DV still to do. Unfortunately all tapes that I have done so far aren’t as I had expected them to be the original uncut vision. It appears that once they had been edited the tapes were re used & Vegas was used with the ‘print video to tape’ feature.

I assume that this ‘print video to tape’ version I now have will be identical to what would have appeared on a DVD had they been burnt to disk, but I don’t know.

Thanks in advance