Little Tiny 40Gig

[Gordon B. Alley]

On the other hand, I never had any luck capturing from my Canon ZR 40 
to an external FireWire drive with iMovie on my iMac G4 800, whether 
the camcorder was daisy-chained with that drive or not.

The last time I tried it (at least a year ago), the iMovie Help still 
had a statement about problems capturing to external drives from 
Canon camcorders, but that statement doesn't seem to be in the Help 
for iMovie 4. So, maybe its been fixed with recent versions of 
iMovie. Or maybe it's just that the current model Canon cameras don't 
exhibit the problem anymore.

--Gordon

On Mon, 07 Jun 2004 05:52:03 -0500, R B Williams <brucewll at comcast.net> wrote:
>The Canon / external Firewire issue that was discussed involved a 
>Blue & White G3 Mac
>where the 2 firewire devices were connected directly to the computer 
>FW ports. The issue
>disappeared when the camera was daisy chained into the drive instead.
>
>I was unable to duplicate the problem at the time, but later had a 
>capture issue from a
>canopus box to external firewire. It was solved in the same way. I 
>just plugged the
>capture box into the FW port on the drive.
>
>This doesn't really make sense that it matters, but that is my experience.
>
>By the way, I have 3 different Canon mini-dv cameras and have good 
>results from all of
>them.
>
>R.B.
>
>Charles Pearson wrote:
>
>>  > Well, it might depend on your camera. There is some perception that
>>  > Canon cameras don't always work with external drives.
>>  >
>>  > Shirley
>>
>>  OK, is there anything to this? I will be using a Canon Optura Pi and
>>  need to import off of it. Does anyone know if this will be a problem?
>>
>  > Chuck
>  >

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