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firewire drive for video editing
I have an external firewire drive (400) , but I’ve been using it for storage only. I have never edited straight from it. What I do is I just store my video clips there, then when I’m ready to edit I copy and paste the clips in the FW drive to the second hardrive in my system.
What I’d like to know is this: Can I edit straight from the firewire drive?
Thus eliminating the step of copying and pasting the file from the FW drive to the internal drive.
I’ve never edited straight from the FW drive, because I thought this was wrong. I thought you had to
have the video in a second (not the boot) drive that’s inside the sistem, and edit from that drive.Please advise.
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Hi
If you are using FCP on a Mac then most external FW400 drives from reputable manufacturers work fine for editing DV from. Problems are most likely to occur when the drives are allowed to spin down or you try to let the Mac sleep. OS X can be set to restrict both of these.
You should have DiskWarrior to hand in the event of the drive not mounting properly.
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