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Capturing from Mini Dv to Final Cut Pro?
Hi,
I have a MacBook Pro 15″ and a Verbatim Portable Hard Drive 250 GB with Firewire 400 connection.The thing is that my videocamera has a Firewire 400 connection too, so I need to be able to connect both.
I need to capture from my videocamera directly to my external hard drive, but I only have one Firewire 400 port and both devices use that port.
What can I do?I read about a 400/800 cable, Is it safe to use?
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4 Replies
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Hi Ana,
You can try the following approach for the moment because you’re stuck with only one FW BUS. Connect your external hard drive to the Macbook Pro then connect your camera to the the hard drive. In a lot of cases the camera and the hard drive will fight for control of the firewire port but you won’t know until you try. I also have a Macbook Pro and have successfully edited DV stuff using this configuration. Some cameras are OK in this situation and some are not. Even though your Macbook has a FW 400 and an 800 port they still share the same FW BUS (highway) and having the camera and hard drive using the same path is not the recommended way to hook everything up.
What you need to edit smoothly is another FW BUS. You can buy a FW 800 card that slips into your laptop’s Express 34 slot:
https://www.sonnettech.com/product/fw800expresscard34.html
Then you can get a FW 400 to 800 adapter that allows you to connect your FW 400 external hard drive to the Express 34 adapter:
https://www.sonnettech.com/product/fw_adapter.html
Now connect your camera to the existing FW 400 port that your laptop came with (on the right side) and you’re good to go.
– Don
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In and Out and the same time won’t work
DEFINTELY get the cardbus card
Richard M. Harrington, PMP
Author: Photoshop for Video, Understanding Adobe Photoshop, and ATS:iWork
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I would recommend looking into the eSATA ExpressCards. eSATA is amazingly fast and you can get off the shelf drives with multiple interfaces. I am using some iOmega relabeled drives that have USB2.0, FW400/800 and 3.0G eSATA. I use one for source and one for scratch so I am not always pounding on the same drive or my system drive for my MBP.
kw
kris@wotipka.com
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so capturing HDV from miniDV tape from a sony Z1 cam (4pin firwire400) via the FW800 9 pin port, to a estat drive connected to an express card will work on a macbook pro 17in? I’d like work in the prores codec.
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