[MacDV] Mobile Setup

[Preston]

if you have 25GB free, you will have plenty of room to dump all 35 
min of DV on your internal HD with no problem.  If you choose to 
instead use the external FW HD then go for it.  Yes you can capture 
straight to the external HD.  No need to partition unless you see 
yourself using that drive for more than one project at a time.  If 
so, you may want to make partitions that will work for holding a 
complete project.

keep in mind that one hour of DV = (approx) 13 GB

-Preston


>'Am on the road and have a TiBook 800 40GB (25 free) 1GB RAM OS X 
>10.2.4 with FCP 3.0.4 + QTP 6.1 and an empty 7,200 RPM 120GB 
>FireWire Drive.
>
>I have to edit about 35 minutes of raw DV that's on tape (to a 4 
>minute piece).
>
>Am wondering how I should set up:  Can I capture (via the TiBook) 
>straight to the FW drive? Should the FW drive be partitioned?
>
>Thanks,
>
>PJ
>
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