Mobile Setup

[Gordon B. Alley]

Whether you can capture straight to the external HD depends, in part, 
on what camcorder you are using. At least some "older" Canon cameras 
can't be captured to a FireWire drive (something wierd about they way 
they implement FireWire that interferes with other FireWire devices, 
AFAIK). My ZR-40 is an example of that (it was a "new" Canon camera 
less than a year ago). The iMovie Help mentions this problem (I'm 
pretty sure this is not an iMovie issue, or Apple would have fixed it 
by now).

--Gordon

On Sun, 16 Feb 2003 12:51:36 -0800, Preston <PSeyle at mac.com> wrote:
>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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