IEEE 1394 is nice, but...

IEEE 1394 is nice, but...

Posted Dec 13, 2007 6:39 UTC (Thu) by khim (subscriber, #9252)
In reply to: Analog -> IEEE 1394 by brugolsky
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's video journey, part 1

It was quite a struggle to get video out of IEEE 1394 camera under Linux too. Sure, tools come with your distribution - but they just don't work! Under Mac everything just works and under Windows you need to download executable and tun it. No need to search for strange stuff on livna, no need to compare pluses and minuses of different modes: just plug camera in, hit "capture" and get the stupid .avi file!

Editing under Linux is not so bad - though I'm yet to see any editor where I can look at 4-5 synchronized captures from few cameras and choose fragments - but that functionality is probably considered too advanced for amateurs (even if it existed 50 years ago) so I'll settle for what is available...

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