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[jamesr]

Rezwan wrote:
New Issue, for all you PC people – how do I download the DV footage to the pc? On my mac, I just used a firewire. This cable apparently does not do anything with the pc. Went out and got a digital IEEE 1394 cable which looks just like a firewire cable – but don’t see where to stick it into the PC. And using a regular USB cable, the thing doesn’t detect anything.

firewire is just a name (mainly used by apple) for IEEE1394 – Sony used to call it i.Link. There are the larger 6pin connectors and smaller 4pin connectors, typically a dv camera will have the smaller 4pin socket and a PC firewire socket will be the 6pin variety. If your PC doesn’t have one you’ll need to get an interface card to put in it – like these.
Alternatively if another PC there has one, capture the material on that and copy it over.

Just to confuse things a newer firewire 800 standard (IEE1394b) is also around, the old one runs at 400Mbps, which has a yet another type of connector.