FW HD's that work with iMovie?

Gordon B. Alley galley at texas.net
Fri Dec 13 08:05:38 PST 2002


There is definitely a problem with capturing from Canon camcorders to 
FireWire hard disks. It is mentioned briefly in the iMovie Help 
information.

On Fri, 13 Dec 2002 07:53:42 -0500, Gerhard Kuhn <suspice at hay.net> wrote:
>Most FW hard drives have two FW ports so they act as a hub so you can
>connect both the camera and hard drive at the same time. I also have a
>7200 rpm drive and cannot capture reliably directly to it but have never
>encountered a problem editing files on it or exporting them to iDVD.  As
>long as I take the extra step of capturing to the internal drive and
>then copying to the FW drive I encounter no problems.

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