DV or USB
 

Hi

Just a quick question what are the advantages of using a DV cable to transfer video footage from a DV Camcorder to my PC over USB. As i am thinking of getting a Firewire pci card to transfer videos and just wanted to make sure that it was worth it.. Thanks in advance

Re: DV or USB
 

Although USB2 peaks higher than firewire (but not firewire 800) the sustained throughput on fire wire is usually better

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Firewire-IEEE1...QQcmdZViewItem

the cards are cheap enough :)

P.s I just hit the first one i saw on buy it now look around before committing to a purchase.

Re: DV or USB
 

The cheapest 1394b [800] card I could find is this 1 at Maplin.

Re: DV or USB
 

I do this quite frequently over firewire and have never had a problem.

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Not sure about your camcorder & software, but I know my JVC miniDV cam only allows stills to be transfered by USB - video must be copied by firewire. Have you actually tried downloading via USB yet?

Re: DV or USB
 

I would recommend firewire everytime. It was designed for video transfer, and, as stated before can sustain a higher speed. We have Sony camcorders at work that do output video via USB, but they lower the resolution of the video to do so.

Re: DV or USB
 

Thanks for all the info, its really helpful,
Hi aragorn my JVC Mini DV does transfer video over usb just not that great.

I will have a hunt round ebay and see what i can find.

Thanks again