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[Zoberist]

I have been using Roxio Creator 2009 and have just purchased Roxio Creator 2010 Pro. I also have a High Definition Camera which I just purchased. For video Capture the Creator 2010 box says I need a "Firewire" card. That was not a requirement for Creator 2009. Can I use a USB 2.0 like with Creator 2009? Roxio was fine with a digital camera connected to a USB port with Creator 2009. Why do I now need "Firewire"

[myguggi]

I have been using Roxio Creator 2009 and have just purchased Roxio Creator 2010 Pro. I also have a High Definition Camera which I just purchased. For video Capture the Creator 2010 box says I need a "Firewire" card. That was not a requirement for Creator 2009. Can I use a USB 2.0 like with Creator 2009? Roxio was fine with a digital camera connected to a USB port with Creator 2009. Why do I now need "Firewire"

The following only applies if your have a digital tape camcorder.  Which do you actually have: a digital camcorder or a digital camera. Your post does not really make that clear.

Roxio has always required a Firewire connection to capture video from a digital camcorder, this goes back to EMC 7.

You canoot capture video from a digital camcorder using USB. You can capture from a digital camera using USB though.

Edited by myguggi, 08 September 2009 - 07:35 AM.

[ggrussell]

I have been using Roxio Creator 2009 and have just purchased Roxio Creator 2010 Pro. I also have a High Definition Camera which I just purchased. For video Capture the Creator 2010 box says I need a "Firewire" card. That was not a requirement for Creator 2009. Can I use a USB 2.0 like with Creator 2009? Roxio was fine with a digital camera connected to a USB port with Creator 2009. Why do I now need "Firewire"

What brand/model?  Most newer MPEG or AVCHD models that record to hard drives or memory cards use USB 2 only.  There is no firewire.  In this case, USB should work in Creator 2010 just like it did in Creator 2009.  However, you really don't need fancy software to transfer files from these devices.  They should show up in My Computer as a another drive letter. You can just as easily use Explorer to drag the files from the camcorder to your hard drive.

Firewire is needed for camcorders that record to tape.

Edited by ggrussell, 08 September 2009 - 06:09 AM.

[Jim_Hardin]

What brand/model?  Most newer MPEG or AVCHD models that record to hard drives or memory cards use USB 2 only.  There is no firewire.  In this case, USB should work in Creator 2010 just like it did in Creator 2009.  However, you really don't need fancy software to transfer files from these devices.  They should show up in My Computer as a another drive letter. You can just as easily use Explorer to drag the files from the camcorder to your hard drive.

Firewire is needed for camcorders that record to tape.

Agreed, My Sony uses a mem stick and just simply does not work right when attached to a PC…

Put the Stick in a card reader and it is as easy as it gets!

But my older Canon (tape) needs a Firewire to transfer correctly.

[Zoberist]

Thank you all for responding to my email with your great comments. I have a Canon VIXIA HF S10 and it comes with a built-in USB miniport and an HDMI port and had 32 Gbytes of internal memory. Installing the Canon software driver makes it automatically recognizable by my PC (Dell XPS 730 Game Computer). It easily downloaded my short HD 1 Gbyte video in .mts to the PC.  With Roxio Creator 9 I was able to create a "standard definition" DVD. Roxio first converted the "*.mts" into "*.mp". It did not give me a choice of any other format.

It makes sense that the Firewire is needed for tape but I have never heard that it was required for miniDVD or flash memory and got nervous reading the box of my newly purchased Creator 2010.

As an aside there appears to be a lot of one shot software out there which will convert "*.mts" files into almost any other file type, like "*.mpeg4". I did not see this with Roxio.

Thank you all again.

[myguggi]

Thank you all for responding to my email with your great comments. I have a Canon VIXIA HF S10 and it comes with a built-in USB miniport and an HDMI port and had 32 Gbytes of internal memory. Installing the Canon software driver makes it automatically recognizable by my PC (Dell XPS 730 Game Computer). It easily downloaded my short HD 1 Gbyte video in .mts to the PC.  With Roxio Creator 9 I was able to create a "standard definition" DVD. Roxio first converted the "*.mts" into "*.mp". It did not give me a choice of any other format.

It makes sense that the Firewire is needed for tape but I have never heard that it was required for miniDVD or flash memory and got nervous reading the box of my newly purchased Creator 2010.

As an aside there appears to be a lot of one shot software out there which will convert "*.mts" files into almost any other file type, like "*.mpeg4". I did not see this with Roxio.

Thank you all again.

This is the requirement for video capture: it only refers to DV camera(tape) no mention made of any other digital video source.

For video capture: OHCI compliant IEEE 1394 FireWire card (for use with DV camera) or Roxio Video Capture USB (for analog sources)

[sknis]

Load the mts file into Video Wave and follow the instructions.  Once it is loaded, go to the film reel icon.  There are many choices for output there.  If the video is HD, make sure you select the project type as wide screen; there will be other and more choices.

[ggrussell]

Roxio first converted the "*.mts" into "*.mp".

Interesting...  I was under the impression that C2010 could edit AVCHD natively without conversion.  I'll have to check into that.

[sknis]

Sorry I was thinking of "m2t"