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Posted by Richard Crowley on 10/23/07 20:58
"Bill" wrote ...
> Just out of curiousity, why would you even need the firewire port?
>
> I virtually never capture my video from my VX2000. I run it off my small
> consumer model camcorder. There is no difference in video quality, and
> saves wear and tear on my good camera.
I believe PTravel said that is exactly what his workaround is.
But he is forced to do it because of the FW port, rather than
doing it to save the VX2000 transport.
OTOH, he could advertise the lower head drum hours
because he never used it for capture. It might partially
make up for the loss of value from the broken FW. :-)
> However, you will have lost the ability to run video through the A/D
> conversion using the composite inputs on the VX2000.
You also lose the ability to feed the live video into your laptop
to capture to hard drive, or to feed into an external Firestore,
or to use for webcam-type applications, etc.
I have an early-generation DSR-300 and frequently miss the
Firewire port (which was added in later generations :-((
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