[MacDV] Re: Mobile Setup

[David]

Just so we're clear, when people recommend keeping video capture off 
the internal drive, they are referring to the internal hard drive that 
came with your computer that has your system software on it. You could 
certainly install an additional IDE drive "internally" in an empty bay 
of your tower and have good results. The point is, your internal drive 
with the system software is typically fragmented and the computer must 
refer to the drive sporadically, interrupting video capture. I've used 
both additional IDE drives in the Mac and external Firewire drives with 
iMovie and had good results. When using an external FW drive however, I 
make sure to plug the drive into one FW connection on the Mac and my DV 
camera into the other, NOT daisy-chaining the camera off of the hard 
drive. Obviously, laptops don't have room for additional internal 
drives...

-DC

On Tuesday, February 18, 2003, at 05:16 AM, Jim Zabilla <jimzab at cox.net>
  wrote:

> but I would still keep it off the internal.