Newbie stuff; external FW drives

[Sean W.Gallagher]

>
> 1.  Will an external FW drive be fast enough to handle the editing? 
> What sort of data transfer rates are necessary?

   When looking for a drive, in the drive specs make sure you get a 
drive that has a spin speed of 7200 RPM and it should have a FireWire 
interface with an Oxford 911 Chipset.

>
> 2.  What's the best way to get the video from the tape onto the 
> external FW drive?

Connect your camera to the Mac via FireWire, then open up iMovie, Final 
Cut Express and Final Cut Pro (depending on what you have) and capture 
the footage to the drive. You may need to change settings to get it to 
capture to the external drive, but I don't know what program you have 
to edit with.

> Thanks.

You're welcome.

-Sean