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filmy wrote on 6/2/2004, 7:36 PM
>>>capture to an external USB 2.0 Hard Drive while capturing from firewire<<<

If you mean taking an incoming signal via firewire - yes I do it and many others others do it. So far no issues with it. Have a 250 gig in a USB 2 case and have captured and played back footage with no problem at all.
FrigidNDEditing wrote on 6/2/2004, 10:54 PM
Thanx, I'm going mobile with my editing so that I can edit on the road etc... and just not at the office only and wanted some input as to how well it should work from my desktop replacement notebook.
jetdv wrote on 6/3/2004, 7:51 AM
I have an external drive connected to my laptop and a deck connected to the external drive. No problems with capturing from the deck through the external drive to the external drive.
FrigidNDEditing wrote on 6/3/2004, 8:04 AM
I am not sure I understand quite what it is that you are saying here. You have 2 inputs on your external HD and you capture directly to your External HD and then work from it?

I am assuming that it is a standard External HD not one designed for recording directly to from your camera.

jetdv wrote on 6/3/2004, 8:33 AM
No - not a direct recorder. The laptop captures THROUGH the drive saving the captured clips TO the drive. Laptop firewire to harddrive firewire to deck in a chain.
FrigidNDEditing wrote on 6/3/2004, 10:12 AM
gotcha :-)
Galeng wrote on 6/3/2004, 10:26 AM
Hi,

I use an external 120GB HDD. Either hook it up USB2 or Firewire. No problems at all. I keep everything on it including veg files.

When out of the office and attached to my laptop I make sure the drive is recognized with the same drive letter as on my desktop system. My desktop sees it as drive H so I go to disk management in administrative tools and change it to drive H while on the laptop before I start vegas.

Galen
bakerja wrote on 6/4/2004, 1:00 PM
Be careful of the type of firewire enclosure. There are numerous posts regarding cheaper generic enclosures that will hang on playback in Vegas. I use ADS enclosures exclusively with no problems.

JAB
FrigidNDEditing wrote on 6/4/2004, 1:12 PM
enclosures are just a slot for a standard EIDE drive right?
murk wrote on 6/4/2004, 4:52 PM
I use a 2.5" USB 2.0 5400 RPM 60GB in an external USB/Firwire mini enclosure that is powered via USB or Firewire (no extra PS required). This works great for capturing DV footage. The drive is super small, it fits in my pocket without even noticing its presence.