1394a Firewire drivers for Windows 10

In Windows 7 & 8 my PCI express Controller Firewire card was plug & play. The drivers were native to the OS. After upgrading to Win 10 the card is not even recognized??

I even contacted the Card Manufacturer and got:

Unfortunately no, there are no available drivers for Windows 10 with
this device.

The chipset must currently be natively supported by the OS to function.

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My card is recognized, it is listed in the device manager but my video editor crashes every time I try to import from the MiniDV. I am having to hold onto Win7 until I can resolve this problem.

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This is so strange.

Before build 10240 (I think 10116), my FireWire card was running fine.
Then my OS got updated to 10240 and all of a sudden my firewire card is no longer recognized.

Something obviously has changed, but what?

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I just installed the latest W10 cumulative update, and my SIIG firewire card seems to have come back.

I suggest you all do the same if you haven’t already!

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yes I am in the same boat my cubas le7 will not work and I can not upload video footage

need new driver

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I just installed the latest W10 cumulative update, and my SIIG firewire card seems to have come back.

I suggest you all do the same if you haven’t already!

I have a Siig too an 800 3 port pcie in particular. i was having intermittent sound issues and thought it was my audio interface but soon found it was the firewire drivers. i updated to the latest drivers and lost sound completely.

cut a long story short i went to device manager after updating three times just to be sure, and saw the siig 1394 controller at the top of the list labelled as a bus controller, i just thought it was odd and not where it normally sits in the list, so i right clicked it and clicked update drivers, it prompted me to choose from where so i’d pretty much given up by now and clicked from the web. then a little bar came up filled up and up popped my profire (firewire device)

might not be that helpful but i thought id chip in since i had this page open when i stumbled upon the solution.

firewire 1394 OHCI under Windows 10

Spent the whole day on this, and run google dry on possible answers.

I have just built a new machine, intel i7 Gigabyte GA X97 X UD5H and put a new Digitus PCIe Firewire card. Under the device settings, I can see the 1394 OHIC and the driver is 1394 OHIC Compliant Host Controller (Legancy) (Driver version 6.1.7601 dated 03/01/2013). There are no yellow ! marks.

When I run my video editing program, click import and capture, it says that there is no card installed, yet the camera is connected turned on.

I cannot find any upto date drivers for this or much information as to if Windows 10 even supports firewire cards.

Any help would stop me pulling my hair out!

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Thank you for posting your query on Microsoft Community.

This issue might have occurred if the drivers were not installed properly or might be drivers are not compatible with Windows 10.

If the drivers are already showing as updated, I suggest you to i nstall the drivers in Compatibility Mode.

Compatibility mode runs the program using settings from a previous version of Windows.

Follow these steps to install the drivers in compatibility mode and check if that helps.

a. Download the driver from the manufacturer’s website.

b. Right-click on the driver setup file and click on ‘properties’.

c. Click on the ‘compatibility’ tab and check the box ‘Run this program in compatibility mode for’ and select Windows operating system from the drop down menu and proceed with the installation. Once this is done, restart the computer and check if the issue persists.

You can also Run Windows Update and download the latest driver.

Hope it helps. Do let us know if you need any further assistance, we’ll be glad to assist you.

Any firewire capture software for Windows 10 actually work?

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I have a Canon Vixia HV 30 which I was previously able to connect to my PC when I had Windows 7. Now that I have upgraded to 10, the Windows Movie Maker is gone, so I tried installing some of the apps which said they made DVDs, but none of then have the ability to capture from firewire. I did some searching and tried WinDV and DVCapture, but neither of them worked. The camera shows up in the device manager under the ‘sound, video and game controllers’ and it says that the driver is the latest and greatest.

Any suggestions? Thanks.

«Firewire» is a data transfer. not real-time capturing.

Are you trying to capture DV or HDV from that camera?

WinDV should work fine for DV capture. Try HDVsplit for HDV.

Make sure the camera is properly set manually to either DV or HDV before plugging it in to the computer.

You’re welcome. Glad you got it going.

This work really well and install into Windows 10. A life saver for me

I use Adobe Premiere Elements 10 video editing software. I can capture video thru by DV camera using a firewire and editing clips quickly. My students have only about 40 minutes to record the school news, edit, use chroma key, & burn DVD to show to the entire school each day. My problem is that the new Adobe Premiere Elements doesn’t have the screen capture thru firewire on the new versions. Is there anyone can tell me a comparable software to use that works like Adobe Premiere Elements 10. I’m also upgrade to a Windows 10 desktop.

WinDV is the ancient but usual recommendation.

vegas pro 16 definitely has tape capture and print back to tape. vegas movie studio lists print to tape so i’d assume it has tape capture also. both the pro and studio versions offer a free trial so you can check if you wish.

Big breakthrough today! I’ve already copied 18 tapes with hdvsplit, no problems at all, and then started having a few tapes «just not work».

I have learned that with my Canon HV20, I also have both HDV tapes and «16 bit» DV tapes. What this means is that I recorded some of these tapes on an older camcorder. The tapes are the same.

So, when I’m recording on Win 10, I can use HDVSplit to grab the «HDV» videos, and I have to use WinDV to record the «DV» videos.

With WinDV, you have to run the software first, then turn on your camera. Also, to record, you hit record in the app, then hit play with your camera.

I’m on a brand new win10 preview build (20175), so this likely will work for you:

Hi rowdster,
registered today, only to THANK YOU.
It worked! installed the legacy driver for the firewire card, connected my Canon Camcorder, and finally in can capture from my old MiniDV cassettes.

Greetings from Berlin, Joern

PS: In case someone needs a workaround:
After recording one tape without problems, WinDV suddenly imported somewhat «scrambled» Videos. After installing AVCutty and importing a few scenes, WinDV was working well again. Don’t know why

Hi, CanonDV! That’s really great news! One thing I found you have to be aware of is that if you are recording the analog video, then every time the video starts, or resumes from a gap in the tape, you will get a video clip with no audio. This does not appear to be a problem with digital recordings.

To deal with the ‘no audio issue’, if you instead, hit play on the tape, making sure that the video has kicked in just a split second, then you can hit record with the software, and it will record just fine.

This means you are doing pretty manual work to get through your tapes, but I found it wasn’t that terrible, and you get to take a bit of a preview as you are working through the videos.

Here was my workflow for the older analog tapes:

1. Launch the recording software, but don’t hit record, and use the preview window.
2. hit play on the tape from the beginning and make sure the video kicks in and immediately then hit record in the software
3. let the whole tape record through
4. use VLC to jump through all the recorded clips, looking for any that start with no audio. If there’s no audio in the first couple seconds, you need to re-record that clip manually. This is one of those places where you have a gap in the video recording on your tape where there’s no ‘data’.
5. rewind the tape to the gap and repeat steps 1-2 above, and just watch and re-record that clip.

6. Then I used Windows Explorer to grab the old clip file name, delete the original file, then re-name the new clip to have the prior file name.

Windows 10 upgrade with Firewire issue

#16 DavidCoppafeel

Awesome. After spending a week trying and searching for a fix again; I’m just going to break down and buy one as well.. Thanks for the update

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#17 DavidCoppafeel

Just curious. are you using the Focusrite Saffire liquid 56 by chance? and is it working properly again in your DAW with that new firewire card?

Edited by DavidCoppafeel, 17 December 2015 — 02:33 PM.

#18 garyhb

Mix Control 3.3 is still available here.

I already reinstalled the Win7 legacy 1394 driver but MC 3.4 and 3.7 wouldn’t work. ‘m going to try Usedforbattle’s suggestions with 3.3 before popping for a TI chip card.

#19 MichaelTrigoboff

I had the same Windows 10 versus FireWire problem myself. So I bought the Vantec FireWire board referenced in this thread. I installed it in my computer but it isn’t getting recognized. Any advice?

#20 duoggle

I had the same problem. Saffire 40 worked with Windows 7 but stopped when I installed Windows 10. Tried most of the things mentioned above except buying a new PCIE card. Nothing worked. In an unrelated event I installed MediaPortal to replace Windows Media Centre. Result — my Saffire 40 was up and working again. Makes me wonder if the problem might have been related to the removal of Windows Media Centre from Windows 10. I am not a computer guru so I can give no explanation. The only other explanation is that Windows fixed the problem by updating the 1394 Via controller but I don’t have that much faith in Windows. Anyway, it’s worth a try (MediaPortal is free). Please post if this works for you.

#21 LMX

FYI I have a Saffire Pro 40 with a built-in VIA firewire chipset and just upgraded to Windows 10 from Windows 7.

The Saffire Mix Control app did not recognize the Pro40.

My solution was to download and install the legacy firewire driver from Microsoft.

All the instructions for installing are on the first link below, but I’ve written out in case they aren’t obvious.

1) Download the legacy Firewire driver from Microsoft here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2970191

• Click on Download the package now link appropriate for whether you have a 64-bit version of windows (x64) or not (x86)
• Select your langauge (default English for me) and click Download
• An .msi file should then download automatically.

2) Run the downloaded file: 1394_OHCI_LegacyDriver.msi

Double click it to run, OR: right-click and select Install.

It takes almost no time, I wasn’t sure it had done anything at all.

3) Install the legacy driver

• Goto to the (just created) folder: C:\Program Files (x86)\1394 OHCI Compliant Host Controller (Legacy)\x64_driver
  (Use x86_driver folder if you are running 32-bit Windows)
• Right-click the file Legacy1394.inf and select Install

4) Change your firewire interface to use the Legacy driver

• Open the Device Manager (Click Start Menu, type Device, select Device Manager, OR: right-click the PC icon, select Manage, select Device Manager from left menu)
• Expand item IEEE 1394 host controllers
• Right click your Firewire interface (eg mine is: VIA 1394 OHCI Compliant Host Controller) and select Update Driver Software
• Select Browse my computer for driver software
• Select Let me pick from a list of device drivers.
• Make sure the Show compatible hardware box is ticked and select 1394 OHCI Compliant Host Controller (Legacy) and click Next
  (Note you can change back to the old driver at any time by selecting your old driver here)
• Close the window after the driver is updated.

5) Reboot the PC

You should be prompted to do this, click Yes.

After rebooting, my Saffire Pro 40 worked fine.

Note that I’ve read that occasionally after installing Windows updates, the firewire device driver can reset back to the original one after a reboot. In this case, just follow step 4 again to change it back to the Legacy driver.

Let me know if you have problems following this, and if it does/doesn’t work for you.