OK, so with FireWire you can easily send video footage to your PC. So how do you work with analog video on a digital computer? Until now, that meant buying an expensive video-capture card. Video cards digitize (decode) and compress analog footage, then write it to your hard disk. But after doing your desktop editing, you still need to get the finished piece out of your computer, then convert (encode) it back to analog video. And somehow throughout the procedure, you have to make sure your audio and video signals stay in synch...or you'll have footage that looks like it was dubbed from Martian, or something similar.
The new DV camcorders make video cards as obsolete as 8-track tapes. They manage the digitization, compression and audio-synchronization processes while you're shooting. In other words, your video and audio information are actually created in digital format. You immediately get broadcast-quality video footage that remains crisp and in synch, with no degradation from generation to generation.
With this process you just need a fast, dependable means of copying the video "data" to your PC's hard disk for editing. An interface card with a 1394 connector is the answer...and Adaptec's already developing 1394 solutions.
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