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Final cut pro
I am learning Final cut at school and dont have enoughf knowledge of this program,so my question is – I just bought Final Cut Studio2, sony’s vx2100 camcorder and lacie external hard drive with one firewire port,I wanted to connect my camera to external hard drive and than to my compiuter so i could have enaughf space for footage because my compiuter has limited space but looks like i needed drive with 2 firewire ports,one for camcorder and one for drive,so I bought firewire 6-port Hub adapter,but for some reason it’s not working for me.
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It’s not recomended to capture this way. As the camera and FW hard drive are sharing the same FW bus. The footage is being sent in through the cable and back out through the same cable into the drive. If you are using a desktop computer Get a second internal drive for your media.
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That depends, what’s not working? Does the camera work if hooked directly into the computer? Does the drive work if hooked directly in to the computer? Are you dropping frames when you capture? Need more info please!
I would guess the problem is going to be the hub. What kind of computer are you using? I’m guessing laptop since you mention you only have 1 FW input. If it’s a MacBook Pro, the best bet is to hook either the camera or deck into the firewire, and buy an adapter to turn the Card slot into 2 Firewire ports (Google: ‘express card 34 firewire’ for options).
Post back with some more details…
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i am using mac book pro osx , whan i connect camera to hard drive and than hard drive to compiuter it takes space from compiuter,not from hard drive,my hard drive has one firewire connaction,do you think if i get hard drive with 2 firewire ports it would work ?
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A better idea is to buy an Express Card 34 Firewire adapter. That will give you 3 firewire connections on your computer. Hook camera into computer Firewire, hook Hard drive into adapter firewire. They cost about $70.
A hard drive with 2 firewire connections MAY work for you, but not a good idea.
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A even better solution would be to get a eSATA card for the express slot and then use a eSATA hard drive. The hard drive performance would be much much better.
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[maestro200377] “whan i connect camera to hard drive and than hard drive to compiuter it takes space from compiuter,not from hard drive”
Hmmm…. sounds to me like you aren’t setting your scratch disks to see the firewire drive…
Some people have problems with FW drives and cameras sharing the same port, others seem to get away with it. Make sure FCP is set to use the FW drive – go to System Settings and make sure the drive is selected for audio, video and render – and make sure your internal Mac drive is NOT selected.
See if you can get it to work like that. If you don’t get dropped frames, alll good.
If it doesn’t work look in to getting a FW card for your MacBook – an express34 card wouldn’t be too dear and will separate out the drive and camera.
Failing that – if you can capture to your Mac drive but not the FW, you could do it in stages – capture some to the drive and transfer it to the firewire drive. An ugly fudge, but any port in a storm…
Jason
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