PCIe Firewire Card for Windows 10, IEEE 1394A PCI Express Controller 4 Ports(3 x 6 Pin and 1 x 4 Pin), 1394a Firewire 400 Adapter for Windows 7/8/Mac OS with Low Profile Bracket and Cable

I have old footages recorded HD back in 2007-2009 on my Canon HV20 that I wanted to grab. I'm running this card on Windows 11 machine. The install was straightforward. No need for drivers.I used HDV Split 0.77 beta for the software that's free download and directly recorded to have the m2t file output. The rest is easy as I can use my Davinci Resolve to edit but it was very easy to get it going. On a side note, the software detects any changes to the recording and will split those in individual files while recording automatically which is a really nice feature.The first port seemed a little finicky with the connection and not sure if it's the card or my HV20 but used the second port and recorded at least two hours worth of media onto my PC. It's painfully slow to re-rerecord these miniDVs but it is what it is.I'm either case, it works well and glad this product worked as intended!

I found some 20 year old MiniDV tapes and my Samsung SCD103 camcorder with firmware download port. This card installed into an HP Windowx 10 PC with no problems and no need to download drivers. Used Amcap software, with Type-1 firmware download to retrieve video -- which is free to use with 15 minute limit for clips. On thing to be careful with is to make sure you understand Capture versus Record in software, as the Record button means Record camera video and over write the tape. Capture shows video on tape and copies it on to computer hard drive. A Cap a little buggy but works, requires restart of software often, as it drops connection to camera.

Wanted to transfer about 15 MiniDV tapes from an old Sony DV handycam to digital to preserve the family memories spanning the past 22 years. A video transfer service wanted hundreds of $$$ to do the job I knew with time and a capable home computer, I could pretty easily do this myself.PC/laptops these days no longer have FireWire 400 ports, so this PCI express card was exactly what I needed. If your desktop PC has a spare PCI express port, this card will work for you. It installed quickly and easily (if you know your way around the interior of your desktop PC) and worked immediately after powering up.Just know that transferring video to digital file is a long manual process depending on how much video you have recorded. It also requires the right software application to process the video, but this can be found free and easily with a Google search. It's not a drag and drop operation. One must play the video in real time while the computer captures the footage to the hard drive. To make it easier, I would run the job before bed or if done during the day, start it and walk away for a while. The process took about a week with the amount of miniDV tapes I have.

I went through 2 computers and 4 operating systems (Linux Mint, Win10, WinXP, and Win7) and I couldn't get this card to work reliably. It would sometimes detect an input, but would drop out randomly during DV capture.Don't waste your time, and buy a FireWire card with a Texas Insutruments chipset. I swapped to one of those and it worked first try on Windows 7. It's 5 more dollars, and will save you a lot of time.

Worked right OOB, no drivers needed, and enabled me to pull a few old DV recording off a camcorder with no issues. I may never use it again, but I love something that does what I asked it to do the first time.

Immediately worked in Windows 11, no fiddling with alternate drivers or anything. Works great with all of my DV equipment. However, on my system, Windows is only able to see devices connected to Port 1 on this card (as labeled on the PCB). I'm not sure if this is a software issue, driver problem, or hardware fault. But, I don't have this problem when I swap an older card into the same system.At any rate, this is an excellent, inexpensive option if you only need to connect one device at a time. And, since I can't identify exactly what's going wrong, you may have better luck than me on the other ports.

I am running Windows 11 and installed this firewire card with no issues. Windows 11 has the driver included, no need to hunt down a driver. My issue was when I used the included firewire 400 cable. This cable did not work at all. I read other reviews with people having the same problem and thought must have been a bad batch or something but honestly it seems the cable is just not good to use. I am using this card with an old Canopus ADVC-100 and I thought my old hardware was the issue since I was running Windows 11. I happened to find an old firewire 400 cable and tried it. To my pleasant surprise it worked fine and Adobe Premier Pro said my device was online.So if you are looking for a PCIe firewire card with 400 ports and you want to use Windows 11 or previous this card will work great. Just buy yourself a decent 400 firewire cable.

This card worked well in adding firewire to my Windows 11 PC. I use this in combination with 2023 version of Adobe Premiere to capture my legacy Video8 and Digital Video tapes: piping the Video8 camera through the DV camera's firewire connection. The window is closing on the operability of these older technologies, both hardware and software, so it was great getting this rather inexpensive device and getting hundreds of old family memories capture to modern technology. Recommended for those with the need.

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Installed in my desktop and was recognized and then worked. Used with a ADVC-300 to capture video from camcorders and all worked fine. Exactly as advertised and exactly what I wanted for my project. Price was decent. Very happy with purchase.

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仕事で必要だったので、注文しました。到着予定より、割と早く届きました。

2,000年製のSONYのデジタルハンディカムで録画した35本分のminiDVをデスクトップPCで取り込むために購入しました。15年前の2,010年に購入したWin7のPCをWin10にして今も現役で使い続けているシロモノです。取りけして最初はカードを認可しなくて困りましたが、3回目の付け直しで突然認識して使用可能となりました。おそらく1回目と2回目のカードの差し込み方が少し甘くてダメだったのでは？と思っています。Win10環境での使用はとても簡単で、i-linkケーブルでビデオとPCを接続してビデオカメラの電源を入れるとWin10が反応して動画を取り込む画面が出てきて、簡単な操作をすれば勝手にaviファイルを作ってくれます。60分のminiDVは12~13GBのaviファイルになります。自分の場合、キャプチャーソフトとか特に購入する必要もなく、Winが勝手にキャプチャーして取り込んでくれたので助かりました。おかげで、35本のminiDVの取り込みも無事終了できましたよ。あえて難を言うなら、注文してから届くまで2週間以上(中国本土からの発送のため税関通過に時間を要するのかも？)かかったことと、取説無しの部品のみなので少し心配だったことぐらいですかね。