skydonkey 0 #1 October 19, 2006 Hi I recently changed laptops and my new one doesn't have built in Firewire. So I bought a combi IEEE1394 / USB PC card I am only pulling the video in through Movie Maker but when I plug my HC40 in it cant find the camera. I do however get DVin appear on the cam screen while it is pluggged in. Is this correct or should it be saying DVout? Many thanks Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Unutsch 0 #2 October 19, 2006 My camera says DV-in, and since it works, i'd guess it is correct. Hm, the laptop should automatically find the camera, so i see only 3 options: wrong drivers (which in my knowledge should not be a problem with PCMCIA cards) or faulty card (test it on another laptop) or faulty PCMCIA slot on your notebook (try conecting some other PCMCIA card to it). But, then again, i am in no way a computer guru... i just have some ideas what i would try to do... Check out the site of the Fallen Angels FreeflY Organisation: http://www.padliangeli.org Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dunesurfer 0 #3 October 19, 2006 When you plug the firewire card into the laptop does it show up in the device tree? Are you trying to plug a PCMCIA card into an "expresscard" slot? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
salsicha 0 #4 October 20, 2006 well, I think you have one problem now, and will have another one later. If your laptop doesn't have a firewire conection, even if you use a firewire / usb adapter, you will have problems. the adapter is only for the plug, but the speed is the usb speed, the transfer rate is the one from an usb conection. So you have a usb conection. And usb is not suitable for video.___________________ salsicha - shaggy www.skydiveinrio.com Rio de Janeiro - Brazil Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dragon2 2 #5 October 20, 2006 Quotewell, I think you have one problem now, and will have another one later. If your laptop doesn't have a firewire conection, even if you use a firewire / usb adapter, you will have problems. the adapter is only for the plug, but the speed is the usb speed, the transfer rate is the one from an usb conection. So you have a usb conection. And usb is not suitable for video. Huh? Firewire through pcmcia works fine. USB2.0 is 480mb/sec, firewire 400 is 400 mb/sec. Firewire is still better at handling large data streams (ie, video) but usb2 does work, and there are a few newer camera's that do not have firewire but use usb2.0 exclusively. You're talking about the usual USB1.1 connections on a camera, those are for low-res video and photos only and cannot handle full res video. But saying a pcmcia card will not work is dumb. ciel bleu, Saskia Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
