[MacDV] Capturing Video to External Drives

revDAVE Cool at hosting4days.com
Thu Feb 21 07:16:47 PST 2008


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.)

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