[atomico37]

this last weekend i went away for a little peace and quiet, and decided to bring my work with me. i was editing a little promo spot using final cut 3 and my ibook. for some unknown reason final cut refused to open. so i decided to move anything important to my ipod and reinstall my entire OS. couldn't reinstall final cut though since i did not have my discs with me. was wondering if when installling i could choose to install final cut onto my ipod or another external drive and use that to lauch the program from. i'd probably have to keep the ipod connected the whole time. just wondering if this is possible.

thanks in advance

[dlefebvre]

With the amount of power needed to run FinalCut I doubt the iPod disk is fast enough.

[bradoesch]

Apple doesn't recommend using the iPod's hard drive very hard.

[grovberg]

It's possible, but not recommended. You'd definitely be shortening the life of your iPod. You might want to consider a small dedicated portable HD instead.
-grover

[direktor]

No, he's talking about actually installing the program on the iPod, not using it as his media drive.

Can't do that. It won't let you install it on a drive that isn't a system drive.

Once upon a time (vers 1, 1.2, 2 maybe) you could have moved the executable over and it would have worked, but Final Cut now relies on too many frameworks that are installed all over your system drive during install.