Which Hard Drive

I recently purchased the upgrade FCE 4.0 and installed it on the boot drive of an iMac running OS X 10.6. I have an exterior firewire Maxtor HD for media storage, etc. I use a Canon GL-1 that shoots in Standard Definition and a Flip mini video camera that I convert the output to AIC before editing. When editing on the new set up I get a message that frames are being dropped and suggest that I need a faster HD to solve the problem.
I may decide to get a conventional AVCHD camera and I understand you input to FCE via USB.
So my question is: Which type of HD should I get, Firewire or USB? I also see when I look up HD's on the Internet that some do both. How does that work?
Any advice would be appreciated

Charles,
You connect the external firewire drive to your Mac with a firewire cable.
In FCE, you select the External as the Scratch Disc, any captured files will now go to the external. This configuration simply adds the external as an additional drive to your Mac for video capture.
If you connect an AVCHD camera (USB only) to your Mac with a USB cable FCE will capture using the Log and Transfer window and the files will be directed to your External.
If you connect to your Mac's spare firewire port with a DV or HDV camera the captured files will still go to the external drive because it is the chosen Scratch Disc within FCE.
To summarize: All captures go to the selected Scratch Disc.
So, no need to swap cables in this configuration, you only swap cameras depending on the type being currently used. AVCHD or DV/HDV.
An alternate would be to run my SD videos on my G5 which has FCE 3.5 and run the AVCHD videos >on my iMac which has FCE 4. Am I allowed to do that as long as I only use one computer at a time?
The license agreement allows a user to have FCE installed on one desktop computer and one laptop computer provided the user owns both and uses them one at a time.
If your iMac is an Intel chip computer, use it for all your video work.
AVCHD and the G5 won't handle AVCHD directly. So no need to fiddle about swapping things even if it was legal.
FYI: Make sure the external firewire drive is formatted to MAC OS Extended before putting it to work.
Details for formatting here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=12812322&#12812322
Al

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