[MacDV] Re: Newbie stuff; external FW drives

[Dorothy Hennings]

On Friday, July 25, 2003, at 10:23 AM, Sean W.Gallagher wrote:

>> After connecting your camcorder to the mac with firewire, bring up 
>> the iMovie program. It will ask you for name etc for new movie. If 
>> you have your external drive connected to your computer, give the new 
>> movie a name and save to the external Drive. Bring in the video to 
>> your computer. Save to external firewire drive.
George
>> 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
>
>
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