[MacDV] final cut express and external la cie drive

[Lanny Cotler]

>Please, I'm begging.  Someone has got to be able to help me
>with my La Cie drive and Final Cut Express 2.0 problem.  The
>drive is USB, I followed the directions to use Mac OS X disk
>utilities to initialize the drive and my eMac recognizes it.
>
>I'm attempting to use it as the drive where all my digital
>video is captured but when I changed the system preferences in
>FCE from the eMac's drive to the La Cie and try to capture the
>box that I would normally see the video being captured in (the
>one with no sound) indicates that it is "allocating space".
>
>I'm at my wits end, which is not far mind you.  Please, for
>the love of god, someone help me out here.  What am I doing wrong?
>
>kind regards,  PTM


Though you're capturing to an external drive, perhaps the boot drive 
requires more TEMPORARY space than you have available...just to do 
the operation.