Mobile Setup

[Gordon B. Alley]

On Tue, 18 Feb 2003 05:09:09 +0900, Daniel Beck <danielbeck at mac.com> wrote:
>On Monday, February 17, 2003, at 10:46 PM, Gowyn Wilcox wrote:
>
>>  I do this on a regular basis.  Yes you can capture strait to the
>>  external
>>  but not very well, dropped frames.
>>
>>  Personally what I do and mind you I'm working with larger projects is
>>  capture to the internal.  Transfer to the external and leave it at
>>  home.
>>  Start the project but work in OffineRT, (saves space big time.)  When
>>  the
>>  project is done just reconnect in full res.
>
>Hmmn, it depends, I think. If you're talking about a second internal
>drive, then you should be fine. But, from what I've read from Michael
>Rubin and others is that you should avoid capturing to the same disk
>(or at least the same partition) as the system disk. I haven't had
>trouble capturing to my external (OWC's Mercury Elite 120GB HD) when
>I've used both FireWire ports on my Pismo. I have had difficulty when
>daisy chaining from the drive to my camera however.

Maybe I've been inattentive, but this is the first I've heard of 
problems capturing to the internal hard disk, assuming the space is 
available. I have a Canon ZR-40, which fails if I try to capture to 
FireWire drives (this is a known problem with "older" Canon 
camcorders). I've never had a problem capturing to the internal disk 
with iMovie.

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