[MacDV] Capturing Video to External Drives

[Brent Radbourne]

As long as they're USB2, no problem

Brent
On 20-Feb-08, at 8:25 AM, Steve Robertson 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.
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