can a fire wire hard drive be pluged into
the dv now av card
Oh, it can be plugged in, alright, but the real question is whether it works.
I'll try to find out and get back here with an answer.
Bob C
No, it will not work. Because DV.now AV uses FAST-Dazzle's own driver, rather than the generic Microsoft driver, Windows will not be able to detect a hard drive 'through' DV.now AV.
And besides, you would not be able to capture video to it because the card would not be able to input from DV and output to the Firewire drive simultaneously. The only way you would be able to capture to a Firewire hard drive is if your motherboard had an on-board Firewire port.
FAST UK Technical Support
If the DV.now AV has a similar DV input to the standard DV.now card, then it is possible to use your firewire drive by installing the standard TI 1394 driver (on the Windows CD) instead of Fast's official driver.
In this way I was able to use my DV.now with Premiere 6 even though Prem 6 did not work with Fast's DV.now drivers written for Prem 5.
OK, this means using your expensive DV.now AV as a bog-standard firewire interface card but, yes, it should work.
Ray Liffen