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What is a Firewire?

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What is a Firewire?

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Firewire, or IEEE1394, or Sony I-link , is a connection that’s being used to interface computers to digital video devices, including digital camcorders and high-end digital still cameras. It is very fast, up to 400Mbps, you can plug in after you have started up your computer and you can daisy chain multiple devices. The new USB 2.0 standard actually meets or exceeds this transfer rate which somewhat limited the number of new computer products using firewire. The downside of Firewire is that you can only run about 5 meters with it. It consists of six wires: two for power, two for data and two for synchronization. An advantage of firewire is that most computers are able to control all the camcorder functions (Play, FF, REW, Pause) via the firewire cable making video editing directly from a digital camcorder very convenient.