[1394] Using La Cie external hard drive with DV cam and iMovie

[Fabian Ius]

"Jon Lucas" <Jon.Lucas at nsc.com> writes:
>I recently installed a 120GB La Cie firewire drive and tried using it with
>a Canon DV cam running on the 2nd firewire port of my iMac via iMovie. The
>captured video on the La Cie drive was choppy. Capture from the cam to
>iMac's internal hard drive was fine. Seems to be a function of the La Cie
>drive. Anyone know what's going on?
>
It's a well known fact (to many Canon users) that you cannot capture to an external drive thru iMovie with a Canon camera.  Ever since OSX.

Works fine though in OS9.