On Tuesday, February 18, 2003, at 11:08 PM, Gordon B. Alley wrote: > Maybe I've been inattentive, but this is the first I've heard of > problems capturing to the internal hard disk, assuming the space is > available. I have a Canon ZR-40, which fails if I try to capture to > FireWire drives (this is a known problem with "older" Canon > camcorders). I've never had a problem capturing to the internal disk > with iMovie. Well, if you're not having trouble, then don't worry about it. But, I have, and I have read in books by Michael Rubin, and Michael Wohl (and I believe Lisa Brenneis) that capturing to and exporting from the OS disk/partition is asking for trouble. Daniel ************************** Daniel Beck danielbeck at mac.com http://homepage.mac.com/danielbeck/ Tadayoshi Video Productions dbeck at tvp.jp.com http://tvp.jp.com Video solutions in Tokyo