Newbie stuff; external FW drives

[sb]

When connecting the camera, the computer, and the external FW drive, make
sure you are daisy chaining them. Computer to harddrive to camera.
This is important on desktop machines, which have 2 FW ports.
You only want to use one FW port when working with video editing
applications.

 sb

On 7/25/03 7:23 AM, "Sean W.Gallagher" <swg at greatertalent.com> wrote:

>> 
>> 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