Bruce Hirshfield
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Lee… You are FANTASTIC! I can’t tell you how grateful I am for you to have researched this information. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I’m now confidently going to order the card for my PC. [:#)
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Hi Lee and thank you for the response. I’m most familiar with the PC world and would prefer using that. Also, the Mac is my wife’s so I may not be able to use it as readily. Since writing my post, I successfully captured video from the camcorder via a thunderbolt to FireWire adapter Apple sells. I’m guessing from your comments, that any FireWire card I get for the PC desktop should successfully install the correct driver. I was uncertain if windows 8.1 abandoned FireWire drivers. The PC FireWire cards I’ve seen are about $20 so it’s not a huge investment (actually the Apple adapter was $30). I’m more interested in avoiding wasting time.
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If I may, I’d like to ask a related question regarding capturing mini DV. I have a relatively new PC desktop running Windows 8.1 pro. I’d like to capture the mini DV tapes using my Canon HD20 camcorder as the source. The Canon has a 4 pin firewire port. The PC has no firewire and I will need to get a card (I’ve looked at some Startech cards). Alternately, we just got a MacBook Pro and Apple offers thunderbolt to firewire adapter but I’m reading mixed results regarding it’s ability to capture and, if so, how (Adobe Premiere Pro CC, iMovie, windows movie maker…???) Any feedback would be most helpful.