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April 6th, 2003, 02:19 PM | #1 |
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Capturing to external hard drive
I having problems with my usb 2 pcmcia card and I was wondering if anyone has successfully captured video using this firewire setup.
I know the firewire port on my computer works so I was going to buy a firewire hub and connect both the camcorder and the external drive (or I guess the camcorder and hard drive could be daisy chained together). Will I be able to capture directly to the external drive using this setup? The only reason I think this will not work is because data will have to flow in both directions simulaneously through the firewire cable. Thanks, Reed |
April 6th, 2003, 02:50 PM | #2 |
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I can't speak specifically to your PC, but Daisy Chaining FireWire devices poses no problem on Macs. In fact I do it on a Powerbook with a 4200rpm drive without problems. The PCMCIA connection might actually be a bottleneck for the data and part of the problem. USB 2 should have no problem either.
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April 6th, 2003, 04:45 PM | #3 |
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I've been doing that successfully on an ancient laptop and an external firewire hard drive. Works great hasn't dropped a frame yet.
But I do notice that when I use the USB port that I can lose the firewire connection - I have to restart the drive if I hot plug my digital camera. Specs: Maxtor 1394 PCMCIA card ADS Pyro case 7200 rpm Western Digital Drive Dell Laptop - Pentium II Celeron (ouch) Win 2K |
April 7th, 2003, 03:15 PM | #5 |
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Thanks for your help.
One more question. Is 5400 RPM enough for capturing dv video or should I go for an external drive with 7200 RPM? Reed |
April 7th, 2003, 05:08 PM | #6 |
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7200 RPM drives are CHEAP. No brainer.
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