[Wylug-help] New camcorder with usb2 transfer

James Holden wylug at jamesholden.net
Tue Jan 23 20:18:14 GMT 2007


On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 05:31:17PM +0000, John Hodrien wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Jan 2007, James Holden wrote:
> 
> >A bit of googling suggests that it's not going to work, though. Worse
> >still, you're not likely to get as good results with USB2 as with
> >Firewire even if you resort to Windows. USB wasn't really designed for
> >video - Firewire was.
> 
> While I agree that firewire does have a better design for this sort of 
> thing,
> is there any real reason why the user experience within some form of video
> editing package would be different on an unloaded USB2 bus rather than an
> unloaded firewire bus?

I wouldn't know - I've never tried it over USB2. If you google around
though, there seems to be enough people noting a difference for me to
wonder.

James
> 
> jh
> 
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