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Transferring video files from camera to external drive.

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How do I transfer video, or indeed can I, to an external drive using Firewire?

I can connect the camera with Firewire 400 to the computer and the external drive with F/wire 800.

I have not tried because i do not want damage my kit.

Thank you
Michael Craven.

MacBook Pro 17 intel core dou 2.4,4Gb.RAM,FCP6.2, Mac OS X (10.5.1)

Posted on Feb 2, 2008 7:14 PM

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User profile for user: Jerry Hofmann
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Posted on Feb 3, 2008 3:44 AM

Just connect the drive and see if you can capture to it... many times you can, but sometimes you can't... depends on the FW bridge in the drive. If it's fast enough, you won't have a problem. You won't hurt anything trying at any rate. If it drops frames or something, then a firewire card added to your system to create a second firewire bus will fix you right up.

Jerry
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Jerry Hofmann
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Feb 3, 2008 3:44 AM in response to michael craven1

Just connect the drive and see if you can capture to it... many times you can, but sometimes you can't... depends on the FW bridge in the drive. If it's fast enough, you won't have a problem. You won't hurt anything trying at any rate. If it drops frames or something, then a firewire card added to your system to create a second firewire bus will fix you right up.

Jerry
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Transferring video files from camera to external drive.

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