[MacDV] Editing with Bus-Powered Firewire Drives

[Tim Selander]

Hi Daniel,

Yeah, they work fine. I've got 40gb and 100gb 2.5 inch drives that I 
edit with (FCP 3 and Avid XpressPro) that are bus powered. You might get 
a few more hiccups than AC powered drives, but they're great for editing 
on the run. When we go out on multi-day locations, I often take a PB and 
little drive with me and get some editing done in the evenings. You can 
get them locally here, unless you really like OWC for some reason.

Tim Selander
Tokyo, Japan

Daniel Beck wrote:
> I am working on the same project at home & work (school). I will be 
> purchasing a Firewire Drive for this purpose. I won't need to do any 
> capturing on it. Will using a bus-powered drive work well enough for 
> this purpose?
> 
> FYI, I am using FCP HD, LiveType, Soundtrack, Motion (just using 
> pre-created files in FCP, not actually editing them from this drive). My 
> Mac at home is Dual 2.5 G5 with 1.5GB of RAM, and at work is a older G4 
> tower (Grey, not silver, 733 Mhz, ugh).
> 
> Any thoughts or experiences or suggestion? This is the drive I am 
> considering:
> http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/MEXPFW80GB/
> 
> Thanks,
> Daniel
> 
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