[MacDV] Capturing Video to External Drives

[Gerhard Kuhn]

 I have captured successfully to a USB 2 drive but then I never had any trouble daisy chaining a firewire drive with the camcorder.  From what I understand the portable and iMac computers with two firewire 400 it is only a hub so the second connection does not actually increase bandwidth.

Gerhard



On Wednesday, February 20, 2008, at 08:26AM, "Steve Robertson" <stever at mindspring.com> wrote:
>Hi Folks,
>
>The last time I bought an external drive to use as a scratch disk  
>(probably four years ago) FireWire 400 was the state of the art, and  
>the consensus was that a FireWire drive was the only choice for  
>capturing video.
>
>Now I'm trying to use a MacBook as a portable editing platform. It  
>only has one FireWire port. Plugging my camcorder into the second  
>port on the external FireWire drive doesn't seem to work for me. Have  
>external USB drives improved enough that they cam be used to capture  
>video?
>
>Thanks,
>Steve R._______________________________________________