My experience was that many were waiting for firewire, or IEEE 1394, for camcorder outputs, and Sony kept delaying it year after year. It was referred to as vaporware by many. After about 3 years it finally happened.
joe salerno On 9/29/2010 9:49 AM, James wrote: > was anyone waiting for firewire? Seems it came out back in the late 90s > when everyone had whimpy 300mhz processors and 6 gb hard drives and > pro-sumer video editing wasn't really a realistic option. Wasn't really > until 2005 when dual core processors came out and hard drives > providing hundreds of gigabyte became common that home video editing was > possible, but by then USB 2.0 was everywhere. > > Apple and Sony were really the only ones pushing for Firewire or i.LINK as > Sony called it, but even Sony doesn't see a future in Firewire/i.LINK since > they dropped it from their modern camcorders > > > On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 9:26 AM, [email protected]< > [email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> Hopefully USB 3.0 camcorders (and other devices) won't take as long as >> firewire to bring to the market. >> >> It would be ironic, everyone waited for years for firewire to become a >> reality, and now it is disappearing and no one is noticing. >> >> joe salerno >> >> >> On 9/29/2010 6:55 AM, James wrote: >>> I'd agree that firewire does seem to be disappearing. It's not common on >>> newer camcorders like it was 10 years ago. For example, in 2000 nearly >>> every Sony Digital8 camcorder had a firewire port. Now in 2010 I don't >>> think Sony makes a camcorder that still uses firewire, it's all USB 2.0. >>> >>> Having seen my ups and downs of firewire I can't say I'm sad to see it >> go, >>> my experiences with USB have been much better and USB 3.0 looks like it >> will >>> be amazing with the ability to transfer full HD movies in seconds at 400 >>> MegaByte/s compared to USB 2.0's maximum of 60 MegaByte/s. I don't think >>> there are any USB 3.0 camcorders available yet though. >>> >>> >>> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 4:15 AM, >>> Rieni<[email protected]<polderien%40orange.fr>> >> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> I don't think Firewire is going to disappear, but it's a format which >>>> is considered pro and therefor not present on cheaper laptops and >>>> desktops maybe? Firewire has been developed further into Firewire 2 >>>> is and is still fully supported by Apple, and it's the only protocol >>>> I use for connecting my external hard drives for HD editing. eSATA >>>> seems to be faster but I never had to use it. >>>> >>>> I guess you should have checked the specs of the notebook before >>>> buying it. You write it's small, is it a netbook maybe? Those are not >>>> supposed to be used for things like video-editing and to make them as >>>> small as possible, concessions have to be done, including adding as >>>> little as connectors as possible. >>>> >>>> Rieni >>>> >>>> >>>> At 29-9-2010 10:20, Dietmar H wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Dear friends, >>>>> I have a problem - may be you can help me: I bought a new notebook, >>>>> fast, small and nice, but it does not provide any firewire interface. I >>>>> have a SONY HDV camcorder (2 years old, still nice and great) where I >>>>> get my data only via firewire. What can I do? I know there is no >>>>> possibility to connect USB and firewire - but is there a converter from >>>>> eSATA to firewire? Because eSata is the only thing that my new lenobvo >>>>> is offering... >>>>> OMG, live coukd be so beautiful. >>>>> Thanks in advance for any hint! Or should I really consider buying a >> new >>>>> camera or even exchange my new notebook to a heavier one?Dietmar - with >>>>> greetings from Berlin >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------ >>> >>> Yahoo! Groups Links >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
