[MacDV] Canon DV

[Granville Kennedy]

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In the dark reaches of my mind I seem to recall that the FW protocol 
allows you to daisy-chain the camera and external drive together and 
use it that way.  The drive has to be connected to the FW port on the 
computer, then you can plug the camera's FW cable into the drive.  
Setting the external drive as the capture drive in your software's 
preferences and then you're good to go.  This, if I remember correctly, 
worked with 1394a or FW 400.  If you have 1394b ports and FW drives, I 
imagine you will not stress the available bandwidth unless you are 
shooting native HD DV :-)

Of course I may be mistaken, that discussion was a long time ago, but 
if so, it seems plausible since not so long ago the internal HD on 
laptops were much smaller and slower than they are today, making them 
unsuitable for DV work w/o an external capture drive.

Sorry for the run-on sentences!

Regards,
		Joey Kennedy.

On May 1, 2005, at 10:04 AM, ShirleyK wrote:

> So, with one FireWire port, Chris is stuck with a USB 2 port for the 
> external hard drive and the camera would go on the one FireWire port. 
> Does that work? Otherwise, I'd leave as much space on the internal HD 
> as possible, capture to that, and then move that off to the external 
> drive, even if it has to be done multiple times.
>
> Shirley
>
> On May 1, 2005, at 5:54 AM, Vtstream wrote:
>
>> No..never thought of doing it that way . the drive is connected to 
>> the computer via 400firewire and the camera is connected to the 
>> computer using the other fire wire port.
>>  Is there any other way? I assume there needs to be software involved 
>> somewhere.
>>
>>
>> > A discussion that I started on the Apple discussion board but does
>> > anyone know if a Canon miniDV camcorder can be attached to a LaCie
>> > external hard drive for capturing or to a Firewire hub. People have
>> > told me it cannot and does not work which is why I may have to go 
>> the
>> > route of getting that 100GB internal hard drive.

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