[MacDV] Re: Mac mini DV capture?

[David Cole]

It's never a great idea to capture DV to your internal drive:
Your internal drive has enough to deal with, running apps, running the 
OS. And continually capturing to your internal drive, editing, 
deleting, and starting another project, will leave your drive 
fragmented, if not full. It may appear to work fine, especially for 
short projects, but it's not ideal.

It's best to use an external Firewire drive, spinning at 7200 rpm (or 
better) for your video projects. Once a project is completed and 
burned, print a copy of your project back to your camcorder to archive 
the project. You could keep the hard drive on a shelf and buy a new 
one, once it's full. Or just reformat the drive for your next video 
adventure.

Hope this helps,

-DC


On Jan 17, 2005, at 2:40 AM, 
macdv-request at listserver.themacintoshguy.com wrote:

> From: Michael Kristensen <michael-kristensen at dsa-net.dk>
> Subject: [MacDV] Mac Mini and DV capturing
> To: macdv at listserver.themacintoshguy.com
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> Hi there
>
> I have read many times that DV capuring required a 7200 drive to be
> reliable.
>
> The new Mac Mini have only a 4200 drive.
>
> How will that affect DV capturing?