1394 capture cards ?

[Mark Davies]

1394 card is also a digital interface like USB but
faster. It does not do analog. You would need a capture
card to convert the signal into digital.

Some cameras (like my Sony TRV950) can take video from a
external source (my old Sony TRV780) and convert it to
digital and send it to the PC via the 1394 interface.



>-----Original Message-----
>Regarding Video Capture Cards:
>
>I assume I need that card only for analog, since digital
movies from the
>camcorder I can get via an USB input.
>
>But does the 1394 card then accept the analog output
from an earlier viedo
>camera and allow it to be processed with MS Moviemaker 2
or do I need
>something else yet to convert analog to digital? Or is
that the very purpose
>of the sugested 1394 SIIG card?
>
>Regards
>
>Karolus
>
>
>.
>

[Hausi Tellenbach]

"Mark Davies" > wrote in message
...
> 1394 card is also a digital interface like USB but
> faster. It does not do analog. You would need a capture
> card to convert the signal into digital.
>
> Some cameras (like my Sony TRV950) can take video from a
> external source (my old Sony TRV780) and convert it to
> digital and send it to the PC via the 1394 interface.

Faster?
IEEE 1394 has a bandwith of 400 Mbps (theoretical)
USB 2.0 HighSpeed has a bandwith of 480 Mbps (theoretical)
USB... other are realy slower...

(IEEE 1394.b would have 800 Mbps (theoretical), but afaik is there no
camcorder, which is supporting IEEE 1394.b yet)