[MacDV] Re: Hard drive for iBook video editing

[Ray Bromley]

Randy and Craig:
I have used an external Firewire 7200 rpm drive (Oxford 911 chipset) 
hooked to a 2001 dual usb ibook (384 megs of RAM, running OS9) with a 
DV camcorder attached to one of the Firewire ports on the drive. I had 
the whole iMovie 2 project saved on the external drive. I pretty much 
had to use that set up, since the iBook only has a 10 Gig drive, and 
that's pretty much full. I expored the finished projects back to the 
camcorder, and they seem OK (both on the computer and on tape).  I have 
not tried the setup with OSX yet, and probably won't, since...

I also have an eMac (800 MHz) running Jaguar in which I have captured 
the video on another external Firewire drive (7200 rpm) from a DV 
camcorder hooked up to the second Firewire port on the computer. I keep 
the iMovie 2 projects on the external drive, and even save them into 
iDVD 2, and burn from the iDVD project from the external drive. It 
works fine. I imagine the iDVD disc image is saved on my eMac's intemal 
drive, but I'm not sure about that part.

-Ray :-?
On Monday, March 3, 2003, at 07:29 PM, Craig Busch wrote:

>
> Those of you having success with firewire drives, has any of it been 
> in OSX?  In OS9, my use of a firewire drive has been excellent.  When 
> I went to Jaguary- the footage bacame unusable.  Stuttering, 
> intermitant stopping for a second.  This has been on a
> G3 700 iMac DV SE.  I get the impression that some people are having 
> success capturing to external firewire drives on G4 machines.  If that 
> is the case, I will look into a new iMac or eMac.
>
> I would appreciate hearing from those having success with an external 
> firewire drive in G4 machines especially a flat pannel iMac or eMac as 
> I am looking at those.
>
> Thank you,
> Craig
>
>
>
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