newbie question about fireware

[Sherlock Holmes]

Hi
what is fireware ?
I dunno and just wanna know what is it.
tnx

[Pulver]

Well, if it is firewire you meen - ill try a short explenation

Its a port on your computer that lets you transfer data really fast - much faster than USB. Its very common on Mac computers and every digital video camera can connect to it. Its useful for transfering large moviefiles for exampel.
There are also external CD/DVD burners and harddrives that can connect through Firewire.
Its not that common on PC computers (yet) but you can get a firewire PCI card rather cheap nowadays. Soundblaster Audigy Audio card has firewire ports built in and it probably wont be long until we see it more on motherboards.

Firewire ( also known as IEE1394 ) and USB 2.0 is fighting to be the new standard for file transfers to external devices.

But if it is fireware you meen ... then this is just embarresing for me...
:D
(sorry for bad english spelling...)

[s0nyguy]

additional: it is also very cool for when you are using it with you camcorder as it will control the camera too.

so you just tell it where to start capturing and what point during the tape to stop and then click capture, then you can go off and have a cup of tea safe in the knowledge it will stop encoding at the right point.

plus you can do batch capturing .. select 50 clips over 20 tapes if you like the click capture and it will go until it need the next tape. then continue to the next etc.