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Author: Topic: FCP4 External Hard Drive Problem. Help!
rusty
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Posted: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 03:04AM
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Hi All,

Can anyone please help! I am using a Storix Portable USB 2 External Hard Drive and find that transfer of all video files onto it are incredibly slow. Also capturing is impossible, just immediately dropping frames (using FC4) Can anyone help as I guess its something to do with my settings. I am working on a 1ghz G4 Powerbook (2 months old).

I've gone to disc utilities and erased the disc, but thats made no difference.

Thanks in anticipation.

Russ

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Author: Topic: Re: FCP4 External Hard Drive Problem. Help!
duncancraig
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Posted: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 12:30PM
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rusty,

I think you'll find USB2 is not up to the job. It may have a higher data rate than FW400, but the overheads and such on the data stream mean it won't support DV transfers. I've never heard of anyone successfully using a USB2 device for DV capture, even on Windows. You need a FW400 device like the new Maxtor or Lacie drives which must have the Oxford911 chipset. Ebuyer are selling them really cheap at the moment (Maxtors that is) 250GB for around £200. Drop me a line if you need anymore help. duncancraig@f2s.com

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