James Posted February 23, 2008 Report Share Posted February 23, 2008 Hey,Im buying an iMac and basically the question I am wondering about is; if I keep a 750GB Lacie plugged in to the Mac all the time, will it allow me to set that Lacie as the destination drive onto which I can directly capture and store HDV footage in FCP6 or does it need to be an internal drive like Premiere. I am wondering this as I've been using the RAID drive at uni and I like the idea of having a drive that wont fill up too quickly but leaves all the internal drive space free on the computer. If the answer is no, doers anyone have any suggestions such as software that will allow me to do this.Thanks, James Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaRtZ Posted February 23, 2008 Report Share Posted February 23, 2008 well im using a pc with a lacie lego brick, and I can capture direcly onto that using premiere. it doesnt even need to be plugged in and turned on the whole time too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted February 23, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2008 Ok, has anyone experienced this with a Mac system? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Nick Riviera Posted February 23, 2008 Report Share Posted February 23, 2008 It will be fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonny Jones Posted February 24, 2008 Report Share Posted February 24, 2008 Hi mate yeah it will be fine. Just set the scratch disc to your 750gb Lacie drive. Only thing is you may notice a bit of lagging when playing back footage due to the USB connection and not a SATA connection. I mean HDV is the same bitrate as DV as you probably know, but I use AIC when cutting HDV footage and this is anything up to three times the size file size wise as digitised HDV footage - so if you're gonna be using AIC or any other codec apart from solely HDV the lagging will be more noticeable. But yes, haha, it will work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted February 24, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 24, 2008 Ah right, I've found a few websites that weigh up the pro's and con's of using either native HDV or AIC. It seems AIC is the preferred choice. So if anyone's still interested, would you say that the firewire 800 connection would be noticeably faster than the usb 2.0? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ash-Kennard Posted February 24, 2008 Report Share Posted February 24, 2008 we use that at college, should be ok Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rojo Posted February 24, 2008 Report Share Posted February 24, 2008 Hey as said above there should be no problem with the storage and yes the transfer from the external drive may be slower. In refrence to your question about firewire 800 yes it is faster that USB 2.0. Here it explains all the difference and this should clear things up, If you just look for the table of comparisons. Wikipedia - eSATAHope you get it sorted! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted February 24, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 24, 2008 Nice one mate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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