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[John Fishback]

If it’s one with an ExpressCard there are FW adaptor cards for that slot. That would avoid reported issues when connecting a camera and drive to the same FW port.

John

MacPro 8-core 2.8GHz 8 GB RAM OS 10.5.5 QT7.5.5 Kona 3 Dual Cinema 23 ATI Radeon HD 3870, 24″ TV-Logic Monitor, ATTO ExpressSAS R380 RAID Adapter, PDE enclosure with 8-drive 6TB RAID 5
FCS 2 (FCP 6.0.5, Comp 3.0.5, DVDSP 4.2.1, Color 1.0.3)

Pro Tools HD w SYNC IO, Yamaha DM1000, Millennia Media HV-3C, Neumann U87, Schoeps Mk41 mics, Genelec Monitors, PrimaLT ISDN

[Jurriaan Van der kamp]

I checked up on the ExpressCards but i stumbeled on a lot mails of people having problems with them.i think the are quite expensive as well (thanx Apple for taking away the fw400). Do you know of a card that works flawlesly and supports hd imx and hdv? on a recent MBP?

[John Fishback]

Sorry, I have no recommendation for a FW card. I only use a Duel Adaptor (which is an ExpressCard) to transfer P2 card contents in the field. It has worked flawlessly for over two years.

John

MacPro 8-core 2.8GHz 8 GB RAM OS 10.5.5 QT7.5.5 Kona 3 Dual Cinema 23 ATI Radeon HD 3870, 24″ TV-Logic Monitor, ATTO ExpressSAS R380 RAID Adapter, PDE enclosure with 8-drive 6TB RAID 5
FCS 2 (FCP 6.0.5, Comp 3.0.5, DVDSP 4.2.1, Color 1.0.3)

Pro Tools HD w SYNC IO, Yamaha DM1000, Millennia Media HV-3C, Neumann U87, Schoeps Mk41 mics, Genelec Monitors, PrimaLT ISDN

[Jurriaan Van der kamp]

thanks John. This to all the on the road editors with a new MBP. What is the ExpressCard of choice you’all use?

[Andrew Kimery]

You could look into buying a FW hub.

All Apple computers only have a single FW bus (even if they have multiple FW ports) and the bus only runs as fast as the slowest device. So you have a FW800 device plugged in and a FW400 device you the single bus will be shared by both devices and run at FW400 speeds.

-Andrew

3.2GHz 8-core, FCP 6.0.4, 10.5.5
Blackmagic Multibridge Eclipse (6.8.1)