Camcorders forum: Good 1394 PCIe card to use for Sony Digital 8 camcorder?

I have never found it necessary to use the PCIe buss but wow, that's nice. I've used the usual 8 and under buck PCI cards for over a decade without issue.

As to your choice of Pinnacle, I never used that for the capture step. Last time I used WinDV (see google.)

The number of times I found other non-capture software troubles is something I lost count of.

But hey, great choice!
Bob

I'm always a little confused when folk write they will use that because they paid for it when a free small app that works very well for most of us does the capture step without too much fuss (actually no fuss at all for me.)

I have never found any PCIe card to work in a PCI slot or vice versa. I get the card for the slot but moving to PCIe does move part of the connection up a notch so why not? It certainly has not been an issue for over a decade but if you got the slot, use it.

I didn't write the Pinnacle was _rappy but that I found it easier to use a capture app for capture and an editor for editing.
Bob