[MacDV] Capturing Video to External Drives

[Steve Robertson]

Hi Folks,

The last time I bought an external drive to use as a scratch disk  
(probably four years ago) FireWire 400 was the state of the art, and  
the consensus was that a FireWire drive was the only choice for  
capturing video.

Now I'm trying to use a MacBook as a portable editing platform. It  
only has one FireWire port. Plugging my camcorder into the second  
port on the external FireWire drive doesn't seem to work for me. Have  
external USB drives improved enough that they cam be used to capture  
video?

Thanks,
Steve R.