[MacDV] Re: Mobile Setup

[Gowyn Wilcox]

With the tibook only having one fw port, that¹s the reason I capture to the
internal.  I also use a pcmia fw adapter to capture directly to an ext fw
drive, seems to work ok.


I thought there was a fw bus issue capturing straight to an external.  May
be wrong.

On 17/02/03 15:09, "Daniel Beck" 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.
> 
> Daniel
> 
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