[Jerry Walker]

i have plenty of experience using both usb & firewire and yes, you can use a usb drive, but i’ve found when working with multiple layers or fast edits the usb drive will drop frames and not perform as well as a firewire, specially 800. But yes, usb can work fine. thank you both for your input.

Jerry Walker
Writer/Producer/Director/Photographer/Editor
NewsChannel 5 Network
Nashville, TN

[Jerry Walker]

Thanks, I was just thinking that the internal sata drive would have faster speeds than the external firewire 800, to to mention that i’ll have to daisy chain the firewire camera to capture video from my xl1.

Jerry Walker
Writer/Producer/Director/Photographer/Editor
NewsChannel 5 Network
Nashville, TN

[Jerry Walker]

So I can not partition the system drive and use a partition for final cut media?

Jerry Walker
Writer/Producer/Director/Photographer/Editor
NewsChannel 5 Network
Nashville, TN