Click to enlargePCMCIA Firewire Video Capture Card for Laptops

 

FireWire IEEE1394 CardBus Card For Laptop PC

This Firewire PC card is a necessity for connecting a miniDV camcorder or other firewire device to your laptop PC. A firewire cable runs from your camera's DV port to your laptop computer with this card installed so you can start the video transfer or other data transfer right away.

This new interface card maximizes your use of the ultra-fast firewire-enabled hard drives, iPod, zip and optical drives, scanners, printers and many digital video/audio devices like DV camcorders, HDTVs, and digital cameras. It transfers video as a perfect digital file copy, free from the risk of conversion loss or image degradation during the transfer like the regular analog video connection.


 Why is IEEE 1394 Firewire connection good for video editing ?
The DV video & audio will be captured always in sync and transferred together in one single cable. In the world of video editing, Firewire-enabled camcorders or digital cameras  remove the user's worry about the video & audio out-of-sync problems. 

When you choose to use the Firewire connection for digital AV transfer into your laptop/notebook computer, it saves you the need for costly analog-to-digital converters and frame buffers. The audio track is transferred along with the captured digital videos in sync through one firewire cable, unlike capturing the analog video sources, which you will need to deal with video capture and audio capture separately with different cables and jack adapters between the video source and computer.  

Is Firewire 1394 connection a faster interconnect than ever ?
Yes, Firewire interface also improves upon existing interfaces such as SCSI, traditionally used for the storage of digital video and provides higher speed, lower cost, and is more user-friendly than existing video interfaces. This Firewire DV capture card is 33 times faster than USB transfer.  

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  • 100% plug-and-play installation. 
  • Absolutely no additional card drivers needed for setup.  
  • Equip your Laptop with the next generation FireWire capabilities to instantly work with Digital Video Camcorders, FireWire storage drives, iPod, i.LINK compatible devices and all other IEEE 1394 devices on the road.
  • Maximize and hot swap FireWire disk drives, scanners, and other peripherals on the fly without turning off the power.
  • Recharges iPod thru the FireWire connection, which which can supply both power and a way for the iPod to show up on a users desktop as a hard drive. This means iPod can double as external data storage bank with a simple DV link.
  • Stay mobile and transfer large multimedia files seamlessly between camcorders, drives, other peripherals, and your laptop computer.
  • Capture DV video into your laptop and edit with the bundled video software. From the casual home users editing their home movies to the professional multimedia artist.
  • Secure way for video & data file transfer without worry about the risk of conversion loss. 
  • Great networking interface and data transfer link. WinXP or Vista supports networking with all firewire devices. An easy way for data link between two firewire-ready PCs or simply way to create a faster-than-Ethernet local network by running firewire cable connection around.

  • Supports video capturing in ture digital format via Firewire interface from the miniDV camcorders and other DV video recorders. 
  • Video and audio captures always in sync. Secure video data integrity with no worry of the conversion loss.
  • Plug and play. No driver installation needed. 

  • Designed for digital video editing.

  • Fits with all laptop PCs through the PC card slots to provides digital video input & output.

  • Universal compatible with all makes of DV camcorders including Canon, JVC, Sony and Panasonic. 

  • Video/data transfer rates up to 400 Mbps.
  • OHCI Compliant IEEE1394 PCMCIA TYPE II.
  • OHCI Based Architecture Link Layer Chip Included.
  • Connect Up to 63 firewire-enabled external devices per firewire port.
  • Hot swap support for all the FireWire peripherals. Full support of real time dynamic insertion and removal of devices.
  • Support easy networking and data link between two firewire-ready PCs running WinXP or Vista.


Digital Video Camcorder, Digital Camera, Professional Still Image Camera, Set Top Boxes, iPod, Playstation 2, Scanner, external firewire hard drive, external firewire CD-RW drive, firewire DVD Burner, memory card reader, webcam, 1394 Repeater/Hub and so on.

  • 2-port FireWire PCMCIA Cardbus adapter card.
  • 6-feet firewire/i.Link cable(4p-6p) for connecting from a DV camcorder or digital camera into  laptop computer via this adapter.
  • Installation sheet.

System Requirements 

  • Laptop PC with 266MHz or faster processor (350MHz recommended) with Windows 98SE edition, ME, 2000, XP or the new Vista installed.
  • One available PCMCIA cardbus  slot.
  • 64MB memory
  • 80MB of available hard disk space (1GB for digital video capture only)
  • CD-ROM drive (for digital video capture only)

Q: Does  this Firewire IEEE1394 CardBus PC Card require drivers ?

A: No. All Microsoft Windows systems have built-in IEEE 1394 drivers. Users just plug the firewire card into the slot and Windows shall install the driver automatically.






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