Firewire Drive and ibook

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[Curtis Savage] “The ibook only has Firewire 400. Is this fast enough for editing Mini DV footage?”

That’s what many editors have been using for years.

That said, FW External Drives are not actually “officially sanctioned” by Apple for use with FCP.

But, again, there are THOUSANDS of editors doing just that.

You MIGHT have some problems trying to connect both the FW drive and the DV camcorder or deck (daisy-chained) to the same FW port.
But some have no problems… you can see how your system works.

[Matthew Brunn]

Sure is. Just make sure your Firewire drive is at least 7200 rpm and has a about an 8 MB buffer. Things should be peachy.

Hope this helps-
Matthew
Quad 2.5 G5
OSX 10.4.X
Ram 4GB
FCP 4.5/AE 6.5/DVDSP3

[Curtis Savage]

Thanks guys, that’s good news!