[MacDV] Canon DV

[Kathi Carey]

All,

I attach my external drive to my Tibook via firewire and then daisychain my
digital camera via firewire to the external drive and capture from the
camera to the external drive.  It always works just fine.

Kathi


On 5/1/05 10:57 PM, "macdv-request at listserver.themacintoshguy.com"
<macdv-request at listserver.themacintoshguy.com> thought it over and 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.