CAPTURE VIDEO IEEE1394 (firewire / i-Link)/ USB?

Question

IEEE1394 (firewire / i-Link) / does USB

I have to capture a video to deliver it soon but the quality is seen badly it is with usb corder , So you believe that 1394 improves a lot of quality of apprehension (pd my camera is sony dcr-trv280 ntcs of cassette) (and 1394 fireware captures cassette from this camera of cassette?????

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( This it is the camera :P)

Answer 1

if you capture on HDD usb is suffient, if you capture on minidv - firewire is the better way -

special capture card will improve it

also computer system need to be big and fast to capture and edit video.

depends on what do you want for the final video output; you need not video capture card if you want to dispaly on 21 inch analog TV, but for digital editing - video effect and display on digital flat 30inch TV you need bigger computer capacity

Answer 2

For digital-tape camcorders like yours, then YES, Firewire is better than USB.  Anything capturing from a digital-tape camcorder via USB will convert the video to a lower-quality format, usually some flavor of MPEG.

Answer 3

Yes your minidv camcorder needs a firewire connection. USB can't properly download video.