Does firewire to USB work?
Answers: Short answer: I wouldn't accidental it. Stay away.
Firewire and USB are two completely different interfaces, and it is not possible to convert from one to the other. If it be possible to do this, you would see these cables within high quantity in every computer store because they would be contained by such high constraint. Yet, there is no cable that can reliably do this, signal untouched, from a Firewire device to a USB device.
There are some cables that can purportedly transport DV from a camcorder and transfer it to your computer contained by a lower-quality format via USB. These are in nil approaching common use (I hold NEVER actually see one in use), and even if something be developed that could actually convert Firewire and verbs full DV via USB 2.0 (I've seen one cable, near an embedded chip, that could purportedly do this, though I've never see it in use), there's STILL no guarantee that your software will sanction it. It's actually most possible that your software will NOT recognize it. Stay away.
There's a justification why installing a Firewire card is the standard way to do this, even if it doesn't appear to be the easiest possible way. If a reliable Firewire-to-USB conversion come out, it would have at a rate of knots become the standard by now, for its straightforwardness of use. This has NOT happen, and there is a justification for that.
Get the Firewire card. They're not very expensive, and they're WIDELY available at your local computer store.
it's iffy
some nation can make it work while others can't
No. they don't build a firewire to usb cord. You can see pictures of the card and cord here. http://www.usbgear.com/PCI_IEEE1394_Card...
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