Pardarsey PCIe 3 Ports 1394A Firewire Expansion Card, PCI Express (1X) to External IEEE 1394 Adapter Controller (2 x 6 Pin + 1 x 4 Pin) for Desktop PC and DV Connection

Taken it to convert all my old JVC camcorder DV tapes Its simple plug and play no issues whatsoever....no dropped frames or hang issues. Comes with a suitable DV firewire cable for connection.

Decent card easy to set up and good value for money.

This is a Firewire 400 (IEEE 1394a) card for a PCIe x1 slot that provides 2 common 6-contact Firewire 400 ports plus a smaller mini port. I'm running 64-bit Win 10 on a new machine, and its only PCIe x1 slot is occupied, so I put it into an unused PCIe x16 slot, and it works fine. Very little documentation included, but it's not complicated. At first it did not work, and Device Manager indicated a faulty device driver. So I Deleted the driver and device and rebooted, and the system recognized it as a VIA 1394 OHCI compliant Host Controller and installed the Microsoft driver 1394ohci.sys from the system32 folder, so I presume it's designed as a 32-bit device. I'm using PowerDirector video editor software to import from a Sony DV (8mm tape) camera via this card.

Installed in 2 different slot, both times appeared to working fine, after rebooted PC finds Canon ZR60 but capture software fail to connect to it.3 different software was tried. Uninstalled driver, rebooted PC for the 100th times, installed hardware again but now Win10 crashes, rebooted multiple times but just crashes, removed this card and uninstalled driver. Wen to local PC STORE, purchased TI TSB43A FireWire card, works fine, all previously not working capture software was able to connect and capture video from Canon ZR60 without any problems or system crash.Returning it to amazon.

Worked great for a Sony Hi8 camcorder with winDV software. The only annoying thing with this approach is that it breaks the video files into small packets that you have to use video software to stitch back together. However I believe that is a winDV software issue and not an issue with the PCI card

I was very excited when the item came in. However, after dropping it into a PCI Express slot and re-starting my Windows 10 Pro, nothing happens. The card was not picked up by Windows. I searched the web and found 'legacy' driver for IEEE 1394 card but it did not help. The card would not show up in device manager. I had to return the device.