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Final Cut on Macbook
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Join Date: Feb 2007
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Hi, I was wondering if anyone is running FCP 5 on their macbook with an external hard drive. Specifically I'd like to know how people have set up their system to capture video. I'm not sure how to hook up both my videocamera and my hard drive to my mac at the same time since it only has one firewire jack. Thanks.
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Join Date: Jun 2006
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You could purchase a Firewire hub, or you could use a USB connection for the external hard drive if available.
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: London, UK
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Many firewire drives have 2 firewire ports, just daisy chain both to your computer i.e plug camera to hard drive fw port 1 and plug hard drive fw port 2 to Macbook.
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Forum Regular
Join Date: Feb 2006
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Will C has it spot on, this works every time.
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Join Date: Apr 2005
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how is capture to FW400? i've been wondering the same, right now i just capture to the laptop's HD then move the video off to an external if i'm not working on it.
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Macbook Pro 2.16 C2D | 2GB | 160 HD
Mac Pro 3.0 | 4GB | 1.5 TB | 30" ACD
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Jan 2001
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I have never had any problem with it and that has included doing on my old 500MHz G3 iBook. As I understand it firewire works well for high speed trasnfer vs USB 2.0 as it does not have to send it via the processor - I suspect I am slightly wrong with the detail but in other forums regading USB vs FW external drives I have read, USB transfers use far more processor cycles than firewire for simialr or even slower transfer rates.
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Join Date: Feb 2007
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I'll give the daisy chain approach a shot, thanks all.
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