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Useful tools for editors. Part 13.

By S Simmons. Filed in Editing, Useful tools for editors  |  
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This installment is a tiny hardware adapter. Richard Harrington over at Photoshop for Video pointed out a great little firewire port converter. It plugs into a 9-pin firewire 800 port and give you a 6-pin firewire 400 port. I’ve got a number of 800 to 400 cables but I like the idea of this adapter as well. It’s the size of a double A battery. It’s $14.95 and I’m going to order 2. From the Sonnet website:

Which cable should I get? What length? Why bother?
Use your existing FireWire® 400 cables with this FireWire adapter from Sonnet to connect FireWire 400 devices to a FireWire 800 port, without going through the trouble of purchasing yet another cable. Just plug it in between a FireWire 800 port and a standard FireWire 400 cable’s 6-pin male connector (the other end of the FW400 cable plugs into your FireWire device). It can’t get any simpler.

Grab yours at the Sonnet Online Store.

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2 comments to “Useful tools for editors. Part 13.”

  1. Comment by J. Curtis:
    Friday, April 6th 2007 at 5:46 am

    interesting that it says “connect legacy Firewire 400 devices to Firewire 800″… when did 400 become *legacy*? Or, when did 800 take off to become the new standard?

  2. Comment by editblog:
    Friday, April 6th 2007 at 5:59 am

    That’s an interesting point. I wonder what the true definition of “legacy” really is? I’m sure Sonnet wishes 400 was truly legacy so they could sell more of these adapters!