Don’t rely on using the firewire buss to supply power to the unit, be sure to get an AC adapter for it. The one I used to use had a bad habit of blowing the Firewire card in my Mac if it was using power from the Firewire buss.
If you’re in Europe you’ll need to reset some of the DIP switches to handle PAL instead of NTSC.
Mark Landman
PM Productions
Champaign, IL