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  1. 11th Nov 2002 08:28 #1
    TimACK
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    My usb connection to my sony digital video camera seems to capture ok. If I get a firewire card (dv in\out) can I expect any difference in the captured video?
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    Are you able to capture without compression and without any frames dropped? You can with Firewire.
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    Firewire is capable of copying the video directly without further compression (DV is 1:5 compression -- I'm assuming you mean a DV camera) and will give you the best quality. I don't know the format you're getting with usb, but usb 1.1 can only transfer 1.5MB/s so you'll either have an mpeg or a low bitrate avi, and either way it's probably much lower resolution.
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  4. 12th Nov 2002 09:22 #4
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    Thorn, banjazzer, thanks for your replies. It did seem like the mpeg image was a little choppy. I'll get the firewire card asap.
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