Firewire Webcam For Mac

If you are referring to the built-in camera on a MacBook Pro then this implies you are running Windows via Boot Camp. If so then I believe normally this driver should be installed as part of the Apple Boot Camp driver pack.

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Note: The original built-in camera was referred to as an iSight camera but was then referred to as a 'FaceTime' camera and is now referred to as a 'FaceTime HD' camera.

  • And if you happen to have an Apple Thunderbolt display, it has a FireWire port. For the moment, though, let’s assume that you have a Mac with FireWire and a FireWire–capable camcorder. Proceed with the following steps: Connect one end of the FireWire cable to your camcorder and the other to an available FireWire port on the Mac.
  • Ibot driver contains the drivers necessary to connect the ibot firewire camera to your mac using macos x.note, the ibot installer will not install the ibot driver if the ibot camera is not connected to the computer during the installation process. Most web cams will have problems with extreme low-light conditions. It will be listed in ibot2.


Firewire

From the developer: 'OrangeWare FireWire IIDC Camera driver is designed for FireWire web cameras on all Mac OS X operating systems version 10.1 or greater. Some of the supported web cameras. Amazon.com The Unibrain Fire-i Firewire Color Digital Camera for Mac offers one of the best firewire color digital cameras you can get for your home or office. This camera allows you to display, control and record full-size VGA still images and live video-streams with.

An updated FaceTime camera driver for Windows is available here - FaceTime Camera Driver Update


Firewire Webcam For Mac

However I would check and make sure you have the current Boot Camp drivers from Apple installed first. As part of this it should also have installed Apple Software Update in to your Windows so it can check for updates.

Firewire Webcam For Mac


I use a Mac mini for Boot Camp so it does not have such a camera and hence I cannot check this.


The FaceTime camera is a USB device, in theory this means you can use Parallels Desktop or VMware Fusion to run Windows and 'share' the camera i.e. that USB device from the host Mac environment in to the virtualised Windows environment.

Firewire 800 Mac

Feb 17, 2017 2:02 AM