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

I bought this card to connect a Nikon negative scanner to my PC running Windows 10 Home, version 2004. The card was easy to plug into the PC motherboard and secure to the case. I used a known good Firewire cable that came with the scanner, so I can't comment on the short cable included with this card. Like some other recent reviewers, upon restarting the PC I checked Device Manager and noted that it had detected both the IEEE 1394 host controller and the Nikon scanner, so there was no need to install the legacy driver. Unsurprisingly, the scanner software had no problem finding and working with the scanner. In all, it couldn't have been a better experience.

Using this card I was able to connect my JVC miniDV video recorder to my computer. I was able to copy my old tapes to an MP4 file and preserve the memories on them. The card was easy to install and was automatically detected by Windows 11

Did exactly what I needed. The DV cable included was a bit tight but worked fine.

Great card! Plugged into motherboard and turned on machine. Card was immediately recognized! Experienced no issue connecting up a camcorder and using dvgrab to copy everything off. The included cable works just fine too.*Update*Turns out things are far from rosy. The card drops every 20th frame on all tapes, new or old. Now matter what I tried every 20th frame is seen as an "invalid FireWire packet" in the logs and shows up in the video with blocky artifacts. I may have ended up with a dud like other reviews have stated so will try to return and get a replacement.

I needed this connection so that I could transfer some digital video of my kids from my old miniDV camera and tapes over to my computer. The card and the cable came together. I paid my daughter to download a free app and copy the contents of probably 20 tapes to the hard drive. I probably saved a couple hundred dollars and my daughter liked watching the videos while they were downloading anyway. win/win/win.

I have 6 hi8 tapes to transfer but with this card I was only able to do 2 before it died. Maybe I had a bad copy, who knows but my PC would no longer recognize it. Tried on another custom built computer - same thing, so definitely a dead card. Besides that, it was instantly recognized the first time I plugged it in and had no issues controlling my Sony handycam with it. As I said, I transferred 2 tapes with no issues using Adobe Premiere Pro 2021. I'll return this card and perhaps buy it again in the future when I have some time for it.

I'll give it 5 stars even though it did not work for me. I thought the issue with windows 10 was within the controller and thought of getting a card instead of the built in mobo firewire the issue would get resolved, but that was not the case. I gave it 5 stars because after reviewing the listing, it was my mistake because it states at the bottom it only supports up to windows8. I went off the reviews that indicate it worked with windows 10, but it does not. I tried all sorts of tricks i see online, but nothing worked. Going straight to the garbage.

I was afraid of negative reviews mentioning blue screens in Windows 10, but this card is working as intended in Windows 10 (version 21H1) (x64) as of 11-6-2021.Motherboard: Whatever a Dell OptiPlex 7020 Mini Tower hasCPU: i5-4590 (4th gen)The drivers installed automatically.Video capture from a Sony camcorder is working perfectly.