Firewire PCI card advice (1 Viewer)

[John Wilson]

I recently purchased Pinnacle's Studio 8 S/W for a real good price. I have a Canon Optura miniDV camcorder so I figure I need a firewire card to capture and edit video. Can anyone recommend a reliable and reasonably priced firewire card that works with Studio 8 and Win XP Pro? Thanks in advance!

 

[Darren Lewis]

I bought a cheap genric one and it works fine for my basic use. Windows identifies it as a Texas Instruments OHCI compliant chip.
Make sure it's OHCI compliant, whichever brand you get.
If you want a branded make, I've been told that the ADS Pyro Range is good.

 

[Jeff Kleist]

Pyro's aren't very good, if for no other reason than they use Microsoft's DV codec, which has a lot of quality issues with it.

It all depends on how much you're willing to spend, $200 is a bare minimum

 

[Kelley_B]

I love the Orange Micro cards. I think you can get one that has both FireWire and USB 2.0 on it for less then $100....and they are both Mac and PC compatible.