Check your motherboard to see what types of expansion slots you have. So be careful when purchasing a Firewire card that you buy the correct one for your motherboard. Firewire Cards Below, is a photo of two Firewire cards that I strongly recommend to use. They are both PCI-E Firewire cards and are basically identical, one has 3 ports and the other has 4 ports. They are sold under various brand names on Amazon. These are the cards I use here at Studio 1 Productions. I have them pictured below.
That is not true anymore. I have tested over a dozen Firewire cards and the cards with the VIA chipset, like shown below actually worked better than the cards with the TI chipset. The TI chipset are found on the more expensive cards, but they don't seem to work very well in Windows The above cards have both a Firewire 4 pin and 6 pin ports. When you buy a Firewire card try to find one that looks the the photos above.
Remember, they are sold under various brand names. Firewire Cards Below is a picture of a Firewire card. As you can see in the picture, the Firewire cards have a power connector that you need to connect to your computer's power supply. If you don't connect a power supply connector to it, it will not function properly.
NOTE: Firewire cards do not have or need a power supply connection. Beside the Firewire cards giving us problems for video capture, other people have had reported to us that they had problem with video capturing with Firewire cards.
I tested the 12 different Firewire cards, most of them were identical to the ones in the pictures above, they were just being sold under different brand name. No matter what I tried, I just could not get them to work with these devices. They would only connect to the Sony DSR editing deck. The TI chipset cards gave me so many problems, so please stay away from them and only get the VIA chipset card.
We could not get either Firewire cards to work with video capture. But they did work with an older scanner. What about a Firewire to Thunderbolt adapter? It will only show up as a Thunderbolt port in Device Manager and not as a Firewire port.
As I stated above, the Firewire driver looks for a Firewire chipset on either the motherboard or on an expansion card that is plugged into one of the slots on the motherboard. I have talked to about 14 different people on various forums about capturing MiniDV footage this way and only 2 people said they were able to get this to work, everyone else were unsuccessful. I recently tried using these adapters myself and I could not get it work. So I don't recommend wasting your money and time on Thunderbolt adapters as a way to capture video from a MiniDV camcorder or MiniDV editing deck, they don't work for that.
Most video capture software or audio processing software or scanner software need to work directly with the IEEE Firewire driver and the Firewire driver will never see a Firewire port chipset since it is not built-in to the motherboard or installed in an expansion slot.
With all of that said, I have seen people who have used the above adapters to connect an external Firewire hard drive to a computer via the Thunderbolt port, with success. These adapters do NOT work for video and audio transfers. FireWire transfers data as a steady stream, while a USB connection transfers data as packets and thus they are not compatible.
While there are Firewire to USB hubs not adapters as shown below , these are more expensive than a FireWire card for your computer and some users have complained that the hubs are problematic.
Users have reported that they have electrically damaged the Firewire port on their camera or electrically damaged the USB port on their computer when attempting to use a Firewire to USB adapter. Firewire Ports that are built-in to the Motherboard. You will need to make sure this is set to Enable or ON. Some software only allow you to work with footage that comes from an SD card or from the Hard Drive.
We use Vegas Pro and Vegas Movie Studio and both of those software packages support capturing video through the Firewire port. Make sure what ever video capture program you are using, that you turn off the Device Control in the video capture program.
If it is not turned off, you may run into problems trying to capture the video footage. Depending the the software you may also need a special driver for the audio software, in addition to the Firewire Driver. Farther down in the article, under Step 13, I show you have to check to see if the Device Manage will see the connected audio device. Using a Firewire connection with a Photo an Slide Scanners If you have a scanner, such as a Nikon scanner, you may find it will not work with Windows 10, even if you have a built-in Firewire port or a Firewire expansion card.
The problem here is the scanner driver or software will not work under Windows Download the demo version of the software and try it out. This have solved problems for people using Canon, Nikon and a host of other scanners that are connected through the Firewire port. Don't worry if the scanner doesn't show up in the Device Manager, as long as the device manager sees the Firewire card, the above scanner software should find it. NOTE: I have heard from a lot of people having problems when trying to use a Firewire card with a TI chipset with their scanner, even the the scanning software.
As soon as they switched to a Firewire card with the VIA chipset, like the ones I have shown you above, they had no more problems. Mouse Clicks In this article, when we say to Click or Left Click , you will use the Left mouse button, as shown below. When we say Right Click , you want to click the Right mouse button, as shown below. Here we will show you step by step instructions, along with screen shots on downloading, installing and setting up the Firewire Drives.
For Windows 7 users, please skip down to the section titled "The Fix for Windows 7". However, Microsoft left out the Legacy Firewire driver version. Please follow these steps below exactly as they are written. In fact, you might want to read through them first, the go back and follow each step.
I have provided screen shots for each step. If you are running Windows 8, the steps are exactly the same for Windows Then once you have downloaded the installer, follow the instructions below. Find where you downloaded the file to. NOTE: It will only take a second or two to install and it may not show you any messages when it is done installing. This will install the Firewire Legacy Drivers. NOTE: It will only take a second or two to install and then it returns you to the folder with no message that it has installed.
But, don't worry it has installed. If you don't see the file extensions above, such as. Just click on the View tab and check the box that says File name extensions, as shown below.
Look for the line that says IEEE host controller. Save the BIOS settings and reboot the computer. You will need to purchase a Firewire Expansion Card that plugs into one of the slots on the motherboard.
Make sure you power off the computer before moving the Firewire card to another expansion slot. Now see if it shows up in the Device Manager. If it still does not show up, make sure the Firewire has the VIA chipset. Sometimes Firewire cards that have the TI chipset will not be seen in the Device Manger and you will not be able to use it.
Try purchasing another Firewire card with the VIA chipset and see if it works. Below is a sample of what the Device Manager will show. Step 8 Then select Browse my computer for driver software. As shown below. I'm quite pleased with the product. Cons: Did not matter which drivers I used, I downloaded them from the site, followed specific instructions, uninstalled and reinstalled at least 10 times. Do not waste your money. I would suggest getting a converter from a store near you so you have the option to return it.
Overall Review: I tested the device with something as basic as a serial mouse, would not work. I did an internal and external feedback test, I even used the hyperterminal. Those things worked, but everything else failed. There is diagnostic software that comes with this product and it apparently failed a number of its own tests.
Cons: Device auto-detects, but will not allow access to change com port to anything below COM8. Overall Review: I would not purchase again.
Visited the manufacturers website to get latest drivers. Not even a manufacturers name, just Made in China. Cons: I bought three of these, and all worked under xp and vista; however, after upgrading to win 7 and installing the latest prolific drivers, two give code 10 driver errors under. Interestingly, the two the have driver load problems do not have stickers that say "Q. Passed", while the one that does work does have a QC sticker Hence, if you have driver problems under Win 7, it may be fault hardware.
Cons: Doesnt work with included driver was on a netbook at a remote site and i was stranded with no serial connection. Overall Review: download the new drivers!! Cons: No Vista x64 support. Drivers on the Syba website are not signed and require you to disable signed device driver checking in Vista.
Even after disabling driver signing the device doesn't work with the Syba drivers or the Prolific PL Vista x64 which this devices is based on.
Overall Review: If it wasn't so cheap I'd return it. That's what I get for buying the cheapest usb to serial adapter. The port won't work, the program using it can't be killed, and XP won't shutdown. After powering off XP, rebooting, unplugging it and replugging, it will work fine, until XP sleeps again. I tried the latest drivers from Prolific, but that didn't help.
It might recover from S1 sleep okay, which is the normal and not very useful XP standby sleep. I've always been suspicious of USB, and this ain't helpin' the situation. I figure they'll get it perfected by the year Overall Review: The "manual" had one bit of useful info. It mentions pl It ran successfully, and told me nothing else.
I plugged it in, actually unplugged and replugged. In device manager I found it under ports com. It said it was com4. I used com4, it worked, and I'm happy. Add to cart. Price Alert. Add To Wish List. Are you an E-Blast Insider?
Justin D. Verified Owner. Nice and compact. Did you? Yes No.
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