import to USB drive

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import to USB drive

I'm going to be doing a big video project this spring. I'll be away from my desktop. It'll just be me, my MacBook Air, four tapeless camcorders, and Final Cut Pro X. I'l be taking many hours of video off the camcorders at the end of each day, and putting that on an external drive. As you know, the MacBook Air does not have a firewire port. I know editing video with a USB drive is no good, but how about just capturing it to a USB drive (then editing it later on a firewire drive)? All help appreciated. Thanks in advance.

eMac, MBP, iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.2), MBA

Posted on Feb 12, 2012 9:16 AM

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Tom Wolsky

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Feb 12, 2012 9:43 AM in response to EddieT

Importing isn't a problem; it's just a copy process.

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EddieT Author

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Feb 12, 2012 3:33 PM in response to Tom Wolsky

Thanks, Tom. I suppose this would apply whether I import in the usual way or create an archive. Both are just copy processes, and can do done with a USB external drive as the target location.

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EddieT Author

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Feb 6, 2016 7:36 PM in response to Tom Wolsky

Revisiting this all these years later. Did that project in 2012, and it went fine. Going to do similar thing this spring. Again, will have Macbook Air, but this time will have 2 TB portable thunderbolt drive. I've forgotten everything I learned in 2012. One question--I will not use the portable thunderbolt drive for editing, but will use it just to pull the video off the cards at the end of the shooting day so I can use the cards the next day. Can I just drag and drop the video files from the card to the portable drive, or do I have to fire up FCPX and use that? Thanks in advance.

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Tom Wolsky

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Feb 6, 2016 8:18 PM in response to EddieT

WWhat card? What camera? Different cameras have different requirements.

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EddieT Author

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Feb 6, 2016 10:57 PM in response to Tom Wolsky

Thanks, Tom. Card is a 64 GB Toshiba SDXC one. Camera is a Sony HDR-CX900. But I think I might have already figured out it is best to fire up FCPX and create archive.

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