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DV Capture – what’s the best set up for me?
I’ve been capturing and storing straight into my laptop hard drive. I’m getting a bunch of dropped frames and I’m wondering if it’s because of this.
I have an external hard drive (GTech G Raid), but can’t figure out how to configure all the wires to use it to capture straight to it. I’m hoping one of you can help.
I think the best thing is to hook the GTech External drive to my computer and then the camera to the GTech drive, right? The only thing is I can’t seem to see how that will work.
– My computer has ONE Firewire port (400).
– GTech has three Firewire ports (1 400, and 2 800) + USB 2.0
– My camera has one Firewire port 400I’m assuming the 800 Firewire ports are useless in this scenario.
Right now I have the GTech 400 going into my computer 400. Then I have the camera 400 with no where to go. Do they make a chort for Firewire 400 to USB 2.0? If so, would this work???
Help 🙂
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Nope, you can’t really put 2 devices on the same firewire port, that’s probably the cause of your dropped frames.
It could also be the laptop, specs please.
What I would do is purchase a PCMCIA or express card (depends on what your laptop has) that has either a Firewire 400, or even 800.
You could also capture directly to the laptop. If it’s DV, you can buy a 300 GB drive; that should give you enough space to capture then move to the G-RAID.
You could even put the G-RAID on USB, that would still be better than sharing the port with the camera.
Vince
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