Re: Do i really need a firewire cable?

Buy a PCI IEEE1394 card and cable, very inexpensive at.... http://www.directron.com/sbtvt6306.html

Jim




Sfpsycho415 wrote:
nope nothing that says ieee 1394 or firewire. just usb.

my camera is a Sony Handycam DCR-HC20.

If it can't be done can you recommend a way to watch my movies on my TV. DVD most likely. Thanks a lot decoder.

"decoder" wrote:

"Sfpsycho415" <Sfpsycho415@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:B6206880-33AB-4E03-826B-7A7EA8A53EE5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
oh by the way. I'm not even sure my computer has a firewire port. I have a
Dell Dimension 8400. It has a bunch of USB ports but i can't find a firewire.
I'm going crazy. Is there any other way i can watch my edited movies on my
TV. And will it look like it did on the computer or will it be cleaner and
more like it did when i recored it?

Firewire and USB are a data transfer bus, but different protocol and
NOT compatible, you cannot feed a signal from firewire to USB etc.
OK, lets discern/confirm if you have a firewire card installed.
RIGHT click "My Computer"
From sub menu, select "Properties"
The "System Properties" dialog appears
Click the "Hardware" tab
Click the "Device Manager" button
In Device manager, if you have firewire
there will be two listings:
"IEEE 1394 Bus host controler(s)"
And also an entry for the actual firewire card:
"Network Adapters"/"1394 Net Adapter".


Supply exact/model details of your Sony DV cam,
and I'll try and check it out if it is "DV-IN" capable.




"Sfpsycho415" wrote:

yea so i realized my reply might have been confusing so i will answer all the
questions.

rehan: i do care about quality video, i just thought my cable would go both
ways instead of just capturing.

3KINGS: Yes it has a USB port and an ILINK port.

decoder: Yes to all questions. i am trying to find the dv in on the menu but
it's not looking good. argh. thanks for the help though.









"Sfpsycho415" wrote:

ok. i think sony firewire is called I.Link, so it definitley has a port for
that.

The manual for the camera calls it a usb cable and the maunal for the
computer calls it's ports USB 2.0. However, i have used the camera and the
USB cable many times to capture video to edit. I'm not big on technology, up
till yesterday i thought USB and firewire were the same thing. Please don't
laugh.

So now i'm confused. The camera has a port for ILink and DV, but my cable
doesn't fit into it. Thanks a lot for the help guys.

"decoder" wrote:

"Sfpsycho415" <Sfpsycho415@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:533C63B8-0CA2-43F1-B6E6-098FE20FCCCF@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I have a sony camera that came with a usb cable. i want to save my movie
back
to my dv tape, but it keeps saying "Your camera is not connected to the
computer. Connect using a IEEE 1394 cable and try again." I used the USB
to
capture video. WHy can't i use it to save? Thanks in advance for any help.
This is very odd? This is Moviemaker forum, And I suspect some
confusion..........
Are you saying that you connected a Sony DV cam via *USB* to
your PC and Win Movie maker was able to capture it?
If so, thats a first for both Sony and WMM.............
Now what I think is............
You have confused the cable that was supplied with your Sony
and it is indeed a iLink/Firewire interconnect.
When you connected your Sony to your PC, WinXP recognised it?
It wouldn't have if it were via USB.
You received an onscreen prompt with several options?
It wouldn't have if it were USB.
You opened WMM, and your Sony was listed as an attached device?
It wouldn't have if it were USB.
You were able to instruct WMM to "capture", and it did so, and was
able to control the Sony DV Cam?
It definately wouldn't have been able to do that via USB.

If you answered Yes to the above, then you connected via firewire.
If so, then there are 2 reasons why you cannot transfer back to DV tape:
1) You have to enable "DV-IN" on your Sony cam, do this via
the menu's.
2) Sony market a range of DV camcorders, and not all are
capable of "DV-IN", if you have one of these then you will
not be able to transfer DV footage from PC-to-DV.





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