Sony camcorder with firewire connectivity? ?

Roni Kurz: Mike is right - they all have firewire - that is ALL miniDV tape camcorders have firewire, including thoase from Sony, Panasonic, Canon, JVC, Samsung and any other company that makes miniDV tape based camcorders.They just call it different things. Typically, the firewire port on the camcorder is called the DV port. It is a Firewire400, 4-pin, port. In the context of camcorders, DV, firewire, IEEE1394 and i.LINK are all the same thing and can be used interchangably.In the case of your Macintosh computer, there may be either a 6-pin firewire400 port or a 9-pin firewire800 port. It depends on the computer. You need to know this when you get the firewire cable. Since we know the camcorder's DV port is always 4-pin, then it is the computer's firewire port that will dictate what firewire connector the other side of the firewire cable has. (Some traditional Windows computers use a 4-pin i.LINK/1394 port, but Macintosh computers with a built-in firewire port do not.)An! d... just for clarification, in computerese, "MAC" is "Media Access Control" - a computer networking acronym when in all caps. A "Mac" is the nickname many people call the personal computers made by Apple, Inc......Show more

Caterina Yeargan: what style of camcorder are you utilizing and which app are you utilizing to seize the video - with out understanding that we are shooting interior the ineffective of night. edit the clarification there are no longer any drivers on the Canon web site is that the firewire drivers are area of the OS - you do no longer would desire to acquire any. i'm very perplexed approximately video circulate working via USB - I (among others) became under the corporation effect that the HV20 could purely circulate via firewire. The handbook is quite particular approximately no longer having a USB cable related. some camcorders have a USB streaming function that facilitates video seize via USB (subsequently the query) however the HV20 isn't one a! mong them....Show more

Denna Prudente: All of those camc! orders have firewire connections. I have a Canon XH A1 and use it with my Mac. Here's what Canon has to say about the new XH A1S (basically probably just a few improvements to the XHA1): http://www.usa.canon.com/templatedata/pressrelease...