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hi
I am thinking of getting an intel mac mini for the purposes of video editing
but am I right in thinking that has only 1 usb port
I want to be able to attach an external firewire drive while also capturing from a dv cam via firewire
is there anyway aroud this?
rich
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Hi,
The Mac mini has 4 USB 2.0 ports and 1 Firewire port. Many Firewire external drives have two firewire ports and you can connect you camera to the drive, then the drive to mini (loop-thru). You can easily ingest to the external drive this way as the data rate for DV gets nowhere near FW 400 saturation/maximum.
Some external drives which are designed to match the mini have firewire hubs built in as well which is another option.
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Originally Posted by Will C
Hi,
The Mac mini has 4 USB 2.0 ports and 1 Firewire port. Many Firewire external drives have two firewire ports and you can connect you camera to the drive, then the drive to mini (loop-thru). You can easily ingest to the external drive this way as the data rate for DV gets nowhere near FW 400 saturation/maximum.
Some external drives which are designed to match the mini have firewire hubs built in as well which is another option.
thanks for your reply
is it possibe to drive two displays with the mini somehow? (Ihave two 21' crt apple studios)
rich
(Last edited by rich82fox; Jun 16, 2006 at 06:49 PM.
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Originally Posted by rich82fox
thanks for your reply
is it possibe to drive two displays with the mini somehow? (Ihave two 21' crt apple studios)
rich
I don't think so.
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There is a solution that essentially lets you plug to monitors (VGA) into a box, and plug that box into the mini. Then it basically 'fools' the mini into thinking its got, for eg, a 2880x900 monitor (if each monitor is 1440x900). Sorry I can't be more specific, but if you hunt for it around the web, I'm sure you'll find it.
Edit: After a bit of searching I found it. Its quite pricey, at $169. Anyway, heres the link to the manufactuers site: DualHead2Go
And here a page I found with someone using this setup on a mini
(Last edited by harrisjamieh; Jun 17, 2006 at 05:22 AM.
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