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Windows Forum / Windows XP / Video / February 2006FIREWIRE SPEED PROBLEMS
Grateful for help. Just purchased a Sony HC 42 (Mini DV). Had to buy a Firewire and USB 2 Combo as laptop was USB 1. For some reason, capturing Video using Movie Maker and Firewire seems to take the same time as the lenght of the original shot footage. i.e. 48 minutes rcoreded on the camera seems to take about the same time to transfer to Movie Maker ready to edit. I this normal. I thought the whoel point bout Firewire was the trasnfer rate an quality cmpared with USB 2. Sorry is this is such a novice post...I was so excited with the new camer and now I am just confused! Would apprecite any advice...JC Capture is ALWAYS in real time. 1 hour of video will take 1 hour to capture. It doesn't matter what software you capture with, it's always going to take 'real time'.  SignatureCari (MS-MVP) Windows Technologies, Printing & Imaging http://www.coribright.com/windows > Grateful for help. Just purchased a Sony HC 42 (Mini DV). Had to buy a > Firewire and USB 2 Combo as laptop was USB 1. For some reason, capturing [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > so excited with the new camer and now I am just confused! Would apprecite > any advice...JC Cari, Thanks for the response...now I feel a bit stupid even posing the question but to be honest, I thought that the combination of the Camcorder using Firewire to WMM would somehow operate in quick time. Thanks for setting me stright. So is there any real advantage in using Firewire over USB 2 to perform the capture if they both take the same time? Jamie > Capture is ALWAYS in real time. 1 hour of video will take 1 hour to > capture. It doesn't matter what software you capture with, it's always [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > so excited with the new camer and now I am just confused! Would apprecite > > any advice...JC Jamie I'm not a Firewire expert but it is my understanding that Firewire is less dependent on system resources and it can guarantee a connection fast enough to transfer the video without dropping any frames. On the other hand, USB is more dependent on the system components, such as the processor, and it cannot guarantee to establish or maintain a specific speed. The result can be dropped frames if the system is to busy to process the incoming video stream. DN >>> JC IN Q8<JCINQ8@discussions.microsoft.com> 2/25/2006 12:17 PM >>> Cari, Thanks for the response...now I feel a bit stupid even posing the question but to be honest, I thought that the combination of the Camcorder using Firewire to WMM would somehow operate in quick time. Thanks for setting me stright. So is there any real advantage in using Firewire over USB 2 to perform the capture if they both take the same time? Jamie "Cari (MS-MVP)" wrote: > Capture is ALWAYS in real time. 1 hour of video will take 1 hour to > capture. It doesn't matter what software you capture with, it's always [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > so excited with the new camer and now I am just confused! Would apprecite > > any advice...JC |
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