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Firewire card recommendation and audio sync question
Hi all. I have been visiting this forum for a couple of years, but this is only my 2nd post. (this is a great resource btw)
I am thinking of getting a Firewire card to go with my Sony TRV510 camera and am looking for suggestions. My needs are very modest - capturing clips to put on my web site, editing commercials out of TV programs, and maybe finishing my cousins wedding video from 3 years ago
).
I had (still have actually) a Marvel G200, but moved on to a Millenium G400 and lost the video capture capability. I don't need a tuner or analog input particularly, but if the TRV510 can be convinced to do real time conversion of analog to DV for capture via Firewire, then so much the better.
I see that the ADS Pyro seems to get favorable comments here, so I'm leaning in that direction, but I do have one question about Firewire first:
Is the audio transferred along with the video, or do you need to connect analog audio to your soundcard and record it that way? One thing I definitely can't stand is A/V sync problems, but if the audio is sent in digital form along with the video, maybe that isn't a problem (hopefully)??
I am a semi-hardcore hardware/software geek, so I have no fear of card or driver setup issues and my machine is pretty standard fare anyway: PII400 on ASUS P2B, 128M, SBLive!, Intel ethernet, G400, standard IDE hard/optical drives, WindowsME.
Thanks for any suggestions!
Brad.
I am thinking of getting a Firewire card to go with my Sony TRV510 camera and am looking for suggestions. My needs are very modest - capturing clips to put on my web site, editing commercials out of TV programs, and maybe finishing my cousins wedding video from 3 years ago
).I had (still have actually) a Marvel G200, but moved on to a Millenium G400 and lost the video capture capability. I don't need a tuner or analog input particularly, but if the TRV510 can be convinced to do real time conversion of analog to DV for capture via Firewire, then so much the better.
I see that the ADS Pyro seems to get favorable comments here, so I'm leaning in that direction, but I do have one question about Firewire first:
Is the audio transferred along with the video, or do you need to connect analog audio to your soundcard and record it that way? One thing I definitely can't stand is A/V sync problems, but if the audio is sent in digital form along with the video, maybe that isn't a problem (hopefully)??
I am a semi-hardcore hardware/software geek, so I have no fear of card or driver setup issues and my machine is pretty standard fare anyway: PII400 on ASUS P2B, 128M, SBLive!, Intel ethernet, G400, standard IDE hard/optical drives, WindowsME.
Thanks for any suggestions!
Brad.
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