On 13 Jun 2002 21:49:48 -0700, cinemad@hotmail.com (Peter Mason) wrote:

>I have just become aware from SONY that some of their latest Digital Video
>Camcorders such as the DCR TRV16(I live in Sydney,Australia, so I don't know
>if American or European models share the same designation) have a facility
>called "USB STREAMING" that apparently will allow the downloading of digital
>video using the USB connection on the computer rather than the standard FIREWIRE
>connection. Apparently this also obviates the need to have a video capture card.
>
>Has anybody used this method of downloading video for editing, and how do the
>results compare with using the standard FIREWIRE connection?
>
>Are there any unforeseen problems, complication etc.
>
>Any information would be very much appreciated.

This is for the highly-compressed mpeg-format
video only, the same poor-quality video one
can capture to Memory Stick; for Mini-DV
format video downloading, FireWire is used...