will this laptop work?

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brianluce

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i have an older sony vaio notebook. model pcg srx87p to be precise. it's pentium 3, with 256k and 10 gig storage i think. no firewire but has a pmcia slot. can i still connect a firewire hard drive and stream hvx dv50 material?
 
You can add a firewire PC card and capture that way. But the real question is can your hard drive handle the data rate of DV50? I doubt it. Maybe DV25 though. What software do you intend to "capture" the DV50 stream with?
 
I'm capturing DV25 to USB 2 drives (so they don't need external power) both 4200 and 5400 RPM using Vegas 5 and 6

I'm hoping that 7200 RPM drives with decent buffer will support DV50 and maybe some HD rates, though that may be tricky.
 
brianluce said:
so the external firewire drive doesn't do the capturing?
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Sorry! I didn't see that you mentioned an external drive. That should work but you'll have to try it to confirm.
 
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