On 2/20/2008 5:25 AM, "Steve Robertson" <stever at mindspring.com> wrote: > 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? I definitely had problems importing from a firewire camera when there were more than a few firewire drives connected at the time ... It was suggested to get a firewire hub to cure this problem (I never got around to it.) -- Thanks - RevDave Cool @ hosting4days . com [db-lists]