[Babushka]

Here’s what I’ve gleaned from a year-and-a-half of editing hell, the hell of 4 other FCP editors, including those at a very large corporation and the advice of an expert who saved my life:
Lacie drives, especially the “porsche” design drives, can make editing with FCP pure torture. Plus Lacie support has been mean to my editing friends and dissed FCP, which is probably responsible for half of their business. I would like to know just how many people have experienced MAJOR FCP problems with LaCie’s. I would tell you the name of my new wonderful drive, but then you’d probably think this a commercial for them. My FCP problems evaporated completely when I ceased to use any material from my LaCie, porche-style, 250 GB drive. I regret the many months that this drive brought my work to a standstill over and over again. It was very hard to determine that the drive was responsible. So my advie to anyone using a LaCie drive who has FCP problems is… turn off your Lacie, create a new project on your main drive, capture some material on your main drive or a non-lacie drive, and see if the problems go away. If they do, i think you know where they might have come from.