Best drive to capture to

Capturing via firewire from camera so no firewire port of external drive Is it best to capture to external USB drive or internal drive. internal drive is partioned to run fusion. thanks

Many users never experience problems capturing to USB drives. I'm using a USB drive right now until I can upgrade my computer as the one I have at the moment doesn't have any FireWire ports.
That being said, problems tend to arise especially as your disk space gets to 15% or lower of what it originally started as (which is why I have a 2TB drive). USB doesn't deliver the same transfer speeds that firewire does and because of that the drives are innately hazardous for editing with. Better to be safe than sorry! If you have room on your internal drive, it's probably a good idea to stick with that unless you feel like throwing your chances to fate.

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I'm new at this...I have a Powerbook G4 and not nearly enough memory for capturing a full size video. Is there some way to send it to an external hard drive- for capturing, then burn it in my laptop? Would that external hard drive have to have IDVD loaded on it?

Hi artdrake
Just to add to the already good advice posted above.
Another possible approach which works for me, assuming the ext. FireWire HD is large and fast enough (I recommend at least 120GB and 7200rpm) is to format the the ext. HD as stated above (journaled) and then clone your existing startup volume (using Carbon Copy Cloner) to the ext. Hard Drive. This will circumvent installing a fresh OS as well as all the iLife apps to the ext. device. You will simply make an exact copy of your laptops HD to the ext. volume. It takes me all of 30-40 mins. on my G4 system to do this procedure whereas installing everything from scratch may take several hours.
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Once this is completed and assuming the ext. drive is connected securely via Firewire, Restart the computer while holding down the option key. Select the ext. FW HD. Once your G4 laptop is booted to external drive, use it as you would the primary drive. The only difference is that you now have plenty of room to capture to or to burn a DVD. This saves you from consuming much needed HD space on the G4 laptop plus it also serves as a fully operative backup hard drive for your G4.
Hope this suggestion works as well for you as it does for me. Feel free to post back with additional questions/concerns.
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I've tried moving the newly-captured footage over to the G-raid in Finder and deleting it from the Mac HD but then get into difficulty with what seem to be spurious and intractable "media offline" messages.
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I'm thinking about reformatting the big drive into 2 volumes - the footage is backed up on other drives - but that's a long run to reload all the data unless there's some likelihood it will work...
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ss

Thanks for input, Dick. Connection has been via 800FW only. It's been a frustrating 3 days, but I'm beginning to think drive/volume size was a red herring. Not only is FCE 3.5 unable to deal with this drive, but Finder on the OS X 4.11 has been unwilling to do a simple transfer of its files to another drive. A 3-month-old clone of my boot drive worked exactly the same as the current version on these tasks, that is, not very well.
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Best way for capturing HDV
using easy setup setted to HDV1080 50i (camera is a Sony HDV HC1) captured video look like sh...
and when exported with compressor is worst!
some idea?

Ok fantastic ! you are right (the frustration was talking for me)
video is shooted in 16:9 HDV 1080 50i
Captured video looks:
full of orizontal lines (that look like scan lines) expecially evident on figure edges and on motion subjects
and
like it was resized 1440x1080i from a different lower resolution
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camera is Sony HDV HC1e
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It's the most commonly used codec for this... I've used it with success.
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To quote Emily Litella: "Never mind!"
I just read the whole help section about "Managing projects and clips" and realized I could control this process much better than I thought.
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I need it to perform surround sound in headphones via CMSS-3D I think it is called.
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