On Feb 3, 2007, at 11:30 AM, Joan Keenan wrote: > However the movie that I want to back up to dv tape is on an > external hard drive and since the mini only has one firewire > connection I use either a second port on the drive or have tried > going through a firewire hub. The movie and supporting files is too > big to fit on the internal drive. > > Any suggestions????? You cannot do it that way . It simply won't work. your best bet is to render your movie to your internal drive as a single file and run that out to the tape with the other drive turned off. I HAVE SPOKEN -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/macdv/attachments/20070203/ed3f4222/attachment-0001.html