Hi! My friend recently bought a notebook he intends to use for some of his home video editing. Unfortunately after he opens the box there is no firewire port on the notebook instead he has 4 usb ports. I tried suggesting that he buys a pcmcia card for the firewire unfortunately again there is no pcmcia socket in his notebook. How can we get around this? Is there any other way he can connect his videocam to the laptop using firewire?:lol:
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Jump to PostHow about connect it through usb?
Jump to Postsiting from this source: http://www.qimaging.com/support/downloads/documents/FirewireUSB.pdf one can see that the only thing you will be using it for is reading data from teh camcorder, so it would be read speed. The read speed of usb 2.0 actually obtains 33 mb/s while firewire obtains 38 mb/s. Thats about …
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