[Graham Richardson]

I think my Codec is: DVNTSC 48 kHz

That’s what it says in Capture Presets and Sequence Presets.

What is this offline editing thing?

Sorry if I’m being obtuse, I just started using Final Cut Pro in my high school video class, so I appreciate all of your help.

[Graham Richardson]

“you cannot edit off of the system drive”
Is this because the drive speed is too slow?

Codec… Hmm… I’m not sure how to find that out. I know all three cameras are Canon AVCHD.

“you will need an external drive media drive that is FireWire 800 at a minimum”
I have a firewire 800 drive. I originally had the project on this drive, but later transferred it to the internal drive hoping that might make a difference, but had the same choppy results.

“possibly even multiple drives configured as a RAID, so you will not drop frames.”
So, as I understand it, having twice as many drives running at once means you can pull off twice as much data at once. Sounds great. But… Firewire 800 is only 800 mbps, and if the external I have is already maxed out at 800, won’t two or more drives face the same bottleneck?