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MacBook Pro and Express Card/34
“One FW camera plus One FW Drive = FW Overload”
With a PowerBook 17″, when I digitized from a DV source via FW, to an external hard drive also connected via FW, the computer couldn’t keep up and the digitizing process failed. A cardbus (Wiebetech) gave me more FW ports which worked fine.
Now I’m thinking about the new MacBook Pro. Will the Express Card/34 (whatever that means) give me the same solution, or am I anticipating a problem of FW overload that doesn’t really exist?
— Bob C
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I have been using the Macbook Pro 17 for a month now (with dv 25 footage) and have had no issues like that at all…
Tim Martin
-MacBook Pro – 2.16GHz Intel Core Duo – 2 gig Ram
-FCP Studio 5.1.1 – QT 7.1 – OSX 10.4.6 – Lacie D2 dv external drive – G-raid dv drive
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Tim, were you using two FW ports at once? i.e. hook up the camera or source deck to one FW, while simultaneously digitizing to an external HD via the other FW.
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Yes – DSR 45 on the FW 400 port and 2 external drives daisy chained on the FW 800 port.
Tim Martin
-MacBook Pro – 2.16GHz Intel Core Duo – 2 gig Ram
-FCP Studio 5.1.1 – QT 7.1 – OSX 10.4.6 – Lacie D2 dv external drive – G-raid dv drive
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Thanks Tim. That’s great news.
I’m leaning toward the 17″, but if I decide on the 15″ with its single FW port, does anybody know something about the Express Card/34? Is there an adapter which provides FW through it?
— Bob
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Here is a link to one: https://www.siig.com/product.asp?partnum=NN-EC2012-S1.
It does not list Mac compatibility, however.
Here is a link to an expresscard adapter for serial ATA which IS certified as mac compatible: https://www.firmtek.com/seritek/seritek-2sm2-e/
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