Apple FireWire adapter - 3 ports

The Apple FireWire Kit lets you use your FireWire-based digital video (DV) camcorder to produce professional-quality digital video more easily and less expensively than ever before. It also provides an excellent way to get in on the ground floor of the latest trend in digital interfaces: FireWire, an advanced cabling, connection, and communications standard originally conceived by Apple engineers and specifically developed to meet the needs of the rapidly converging worlds of personal computing and consumer electronics. Apple FireWire Kit consists of a three-port FireWire PCI card, a 2-meter FireWire cable, and Adobe Premiere plug-ins that support capture, edit, and play back, as well as to export to tape. With the addition of a DV camcorder or deck with a FireWire port and a QuickTime-based video-editing application, the Apple FireWire Kit gives you a great way to get outstandingly crisp, clear digital video footage into your Macintosh. Working with digital video avoids the degradation in quality inherent to earlier, analog-based video cards, which required you to convert video data between digital and analog formats. And the high-speed, high-capacity nature of FireWire, not to mention its flexibility and scalability, is already prompting more and more hardware developers to adopt this standard - which means that you may soon be able to choose from a wealth of advanced digital devices, from cameras to scanners to printers.