[MacDV] final cut express and external la cie drive

[ptm at temple.edu]

I've no idea what USB1 and USB2 are.  The eMac is fairly new
and has 2 firewire inputs, one is connected to the Sony VX100.
 I'm thinking that the La Cie drive I got was so inexpensive
because it does not have a fire wire out?  Does this mean I
need a drive with firewire capability and that will clear
things up?  If so, can some folks recommend some places to get
one, I'm a grad student and have a very limited budget.

again, thanks for responding to my plea!  regards, PTM

>
>   I too recommend Firewire over USB. Is it (and your
>   Mac) USB2? If only USB1 this is definately a no-no!
>
>   Coj
>
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>   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
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