I'm buyin IEEE1394(firewire) card for vid editing, are ADATs, HD rec'ers compatible?

[Sabith]

Well, I'm now in television broadcasting in college and we need to buy our own DV cams......... and well, the ones we get have IEEE1394(firewire) connections on em and I was thinkin...... why edit on the schools PC's when I can do it in my studio at home..... BUUUUT I was wondering will the IEEE1394(firewire) card that I get be compatible with an adat, HD recorder or any other kinda digital audio rocorder that I'm planning to buy in the near future.....

I wanna JUST record on the digital multitrack, then I'll dump it down to my PC and edit there. Just wondering if I can kill 2 birds with 1 stone.... don't wanna have to buy 2 different digital input cards..... 1 for my dvcam and the other for my soon to be coming digital multitrack.

Thx for the help,

Sabith

 

[AlChuck]

You need some kind of interface that would send the digital signals from an ADAT or whatever into a FireWire cable. I'm not sure these exist yet on the market. I'm not sure if any PC audio apps can use a Firewire interface to get an audio stream out of without some sort of device driver.

There is one FireWire audio interface that I know of, the MOTU 828. It offers eight channels of ADAT lightpipe I/O as well as 8 channels of analog and stereo S/PDIF I/O.

But you can't just plug a FireWire cable into an ADAT and transfer audio data...