User's Manual

Basics FireWire Technology - 42
Isochronous data transfer provides guaranteed data
transport at a pre-determined rate. This is especially
important for multimedia applications where uninterrupted
transport of time-critical data and just-in-time delivery
reduce the need for costly buffering. This leads to perhaps
one of the most important uses of FireWire as the digital
interface for consumer electronics and AV peripherals.
FireWire is a peer-to-peer interface. This allows dubbing
from one camcorder to another without a computer. It also
allows multiple computers to share a given peripheral
without any special support in the peripheral or the
computers. It is a result of all of these features that
FireWire has become the digital interface of choice and its
acceptance is growing.
In the world of video editing, FireWire enabled cameras
remove the need for costly analog video computer frame