FireWire Card dilemma

[vasanx]

Got a Sony Camcorder without realizing the importance of a Fire Wire Card.

Want to edit my videos and i'm planning to acquire a FireWire Card and a DV cable, but is there all to it or must i get a Capture Card?

Because from what i read (Adobe Premier's Manual), it seems like i do need one.

But it seems to me that Windows Movie Maker and Dr.DivX only needs a FireWire Card. Am i right about this?

Is it possible to get the video from my camcorder for editing through just a FireWire port and without a Capture Card?

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[Crashman]

All you need for capturing from firewire is a firewire port and capture software. I'm not certain if Windows is able to treat the cam as a portable hard drive, else you wouldn't need the capture software.

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[folken]

When my friend did some dv work on my comp he plugged the cam into the firewire and it came up as a digital imaging device. Then he just went into his dv app (I think it was ulead) and imported the video. The firewire makes it much faster than a capture card bec you can record it faster than realtime

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