is USB video capture posible ?

[Walter Biscardi]

[Bouke Vahl] “eeer, Walter,
USB2 is 480 mb/s.
DV runs at 50 mb/s, so speed is not an issue…”

Er Bouke, that’s not sustained.

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[Bouke Vahl]

No, not sustained.
And DV ain’t 50 Mb/s either, it’s 25 (senior moment here)
Nevertheless, even if it is not sustained, it is way enough to capture.
Low end Avid / Premiere / FCP users do it all the time, and i do it when i have to capture for a client who brings in a disk.
I even have captured with success to pocketdrives without a powersupply of their own.

Bouke

https://www.videotoolshed.com/
smart tools for video pros

[Richard Angelous]

Thank you Bouke, but the problem is that I need to capture video from mini dv tape the only port out of the camera is mini IEEE1394

and I was wondering if FCP accepts and recognizes de camera if I use a simple cable converter from mini IEEE1394 TO USB2 like this one
https://cgi.ebay.com/USB-Firewire-IEEE-1394-Mini-4-Pin-iLink-Data-Cable-/110460698627?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item19b7f88003

Thank you

[Bouke Vahl]

I know what your problem is, and as i’ve already stated, in my optinion you should fix the port.

I don’t think the cable will work, as besides data, there is also communication between FCP and the deck over the same port. (Unless you have a 422 port as well, but since you capture from a camera, i don’t think so…)

But for 7 lousy bucks, just try it.
Not sure about you, but my time is valuable to me.
In my hourly rate, my time on this thread alone is worth more than the 7 bucks for the cable.

Now we’re all very interested if it will work or not, so go to the local computer store, buy one, try it and please report back.

If it fails, and you’re too poor to get your computer fixed, any half decent G4 running OS9 can do the capture also, and those machines can be had for free nowadays.

Bouke

https://www.videotoolshed.com/
smart tools for video pros

[Richard Angelous]

I just received the cable an hour ago, but because of the known delay I had to capture days ago somewhere else and I have to finish that edition, so after I finish it I will try the cable, but It won’t be today

but we all think it won’t work because of the comm. protocols

[Andy Tzeng]

You can try USB UVC grabber card.

It is driver free for MAC OSX and windows

And it can work on Final cut pro, mac skype, quickTime and etc without any drivers

The video demo is as below

https://febon.blogspot.com/2012/04/driver-free-grabber-card-can-work-on-ap.html

Grabber card user manual
https://febon.blogspot.com/2012/02/1.html