Vista firewire support

Your email address will not be published. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Notify me of new posts by email. OK, RC2 still has zero nil, nada, sifr, nothing firewire support. What do we do!!!!!!!?????????? Great move MS. Firewire works just fine for me. I am using RC2. I have a firewire drive and it works now, just as it always has. It works for me! Chris K, get a clue. RC2 is really just a standard interim build of Vista, And just for the record, Microsoft announced there would be no RC2 after we made the post above.

And then when I put Vista on my Mac, what, it? Yes Boot Camp. Cheers, Chuck. Maybe I will try it again in a year — on a pentium 2 over in the corner.

Thought that this may help since it took be long time to find solution. If I do need drivers, where's the best place to find them on the Internet.

Are there any free ones? My question to you is WHY would you want to use a firewire cable to transfer files between the two computers? An ethernet cable would be much faster anyway. Good luck,. I'm with lhuegele on this one; get a cross-over Ethernet cable, connect the two computers, manually set the IP addresses, setup your shares, and start transferring files.

This is exactly what you would have had to do with Firewire. Well, that seems to answer my question; in other words, am I to assume that Firewire transfers are not an option with Vista no way, no how? There is no fix? I was hoping to use Firewire because I have the cable, and it would have been a one-time event.

If it had been possible, it would have been a simple solution, instead of having to purchase other hardware. From what I had read, Firewire transfers from one computer to another XP computers, anyhow was very simple. There are other ways to transfer your data as these articles explain. Loading Results. The Virtual Agent is currently unavailable. Please try again shortly. Need help troubleshooting?

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Four only one is recommended to avoid conflicts. 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.