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Will the FINISHED program be (roughly) 90 minutes or is the “live event” 90 minutes? BOTH 90 MINS

Or, how much raw footage will be shot with each camera? 90 MINS

DV captures at about 13 GB per hour, so 6 times 60 minutes of capture would be about 70-80 GB.
Plus, if you capture the “Switched” DV tape, that would be another hour, or approx. 13 GB more.

The external FW drive MAY or MAY NOT be reliable for this size edit.
Apple does not officially “recognize” FW drives for capture and editing with FCP although many editors use them successfully.

That’s a LOT of capture and a long continuous playback.
You might have better luck if you edit it and output it in shorter segments, if possible. HOW ABOUT IF I JUST DIG IN THE LINE CUT, A QUAD SPLIT OF THE 4 PRIMARY CAMERAS AND BOTH AUDIENCE REAX CAMS, WOULD THAT BE BETTER?

BOB