This is an excerpt from "Microsoft Windows Movie Maker - A Visual Guide"
I'm assuming you have a FireWire connector or card installed in your computer. If you don"t, start there, and make sure it is up and running. Don't spend too much money on the connector; for your purposes, virtually all cards will serve equally well, from the $19.00 variety on up, and they all plug into an available PCI card slot inside your PC. Choosing one with at least two ports will allow you to connect both your camcorder and a FireWire hard drive, if you need additional storage space for your captured video."
Is FireWire a hard drive or a PCI card or a actual wire?
I am trying to learn how to transfer video from my DV video camera to the computer to edit it, then to possible youtube or DVD. Please help.
2007-10-06 03:44:41 · 2 answers · asked by nightbt 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
Firewire is a type of data port like a USB port (but you can not substitute USB for Firewire or visa versa as they are not compatible with each other). you can install a PCI card that will give your computer one or more Firewire ports. The wires that connect to the ports are Firewire cables and hard drives that connect to Firewire ports are Firewire external hard drives, but "Firewire" refers to the port and how it communicates, not the cable, not the PCI card, and not the Hard Drive.
2007-10-13 05:09:21 · answer #1 · answered by U Betcha 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Firewire 1394 is a technology, designed for data transfer.
2007-10-06 03:48:26 · answer #2 · answered by Cupcake 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋