Hi old school video nerds:
I use (PAL) analogue+"obselete" equipment such as video mixers, amiga, tube+dv cameras, whatevers lying around to make music videos.

I capture video with a ADVC 300 with firewire on a win 7 pc. It's stable. I have tried various USB2+3 capture cards/HDMI converters Elgato capture boxes on win10 and found them glitchy/lower quality/framedropping etc

Is there anything modern that has the quality and stability to capture composite video that I can use with a new laptop (usb3 I guess) before I continue capturing video with my old method? I did see some Roland stuff like the VR4HD captured n streamed composite but its a bit pricey and only has one composite input and loads of HDMI ones which I don't need.

Also sadly my Fairlight CVI video synth broke last year and I haven't found anyone with the expertise to fix it...It's niche but no harm in asking if there's anyone who knows something bout em
thanks for your elp'
#video #analogue #analog #windows7 #firewire

Generic USB hard drive enclosure test + RIP WD Caviar 1210

https://makertube.net/w/kxSeQQt6893KUy1k44o1oJ

RME、macOS 26 TahoeではFireWire 400/800のサポートがシステムレベルで削除されたことにより「Fireface 400/800」を利用したオーディオデバイスが使用できなくなったと発表。
https://applech2.com/archives/20251016-apple-removes-system-level-firewire-support.html

#applech2 #macOS_26_Tahoe #Apple #FireWire #macOS_26 #Tahoe #アップデート #互換性

Reminder that #USB is, and always was, a bad design; as usual for Intel. We had #Firewire, a true bus, and not the worst option of many, polling, like USB. We could have had everything USB-C offers now -- reversible plugs, power-negotiation, multi-protocol -- with Firewire decades ago if USB hadn't taken over. Firewire even had Ethernet-over-Firewire, at 400MBps, fifteen years before Thunderbolt would do the same.

Firewire didn't need a different plug for the computer-side and for the device-side (USB-A & USB-B) because it was a true bus. You could hook any two devices together via a normal Firewire cable and you'd get instant two-way communication. This is how the PS2 did link-play. USB pushed the workload on to the computer. USB-C solves the "who is the host and who is the client?" problem by putting a tiny *computer* into the cable, that's how insane USB has become.

Firewire has been gone so long now that most #Apple #Mac users probably don't even know that you could plug a Mac into another computer via Firewire, power it on holding T and the internal disk drive would appear *as an external HDD* to the other computer.

#retrocomputing

Video: The Kit – Live Web Video Broadcasting (2011)

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#firewire #kit #wirecast

I remembered I may have some files on an old hard drive and was presented with these lovely connection options.

Amazingly I still have the #firewire 800-to-400 cable but the only computer I can plug it into (2009 MacBook) has a dud battery.

So now I need to buy either some kind of FW adapter or mini-USB to USB-C cable.

I never looked into the sata option, anyone know what that is?

#usb #oldhardware

macOS 26 TahoeではFireWireドライバが同梱されず、初期のiPodやNikon CoolScanなどFireWireデバイスがMacと接続できなるのでアップグレードには注意を。
https://applech2.com/archives/20250915-macos-26-tahoe-removed-firewire-800-kext.html

#applech2 #macOS_26_Tahoe #Apple #FireWire #iPod #macOS_26 #Tahoe #アップデート #開発者