Can I hookup my camcorder to external HD to laptop?
Sorry about the title. Didn't want to use too many words. I just purchased a panasonic gs320 off ebay. Looking to do some simple point and shoot stuff with a decent quality 3 ccd cam. Now here's my question. I have a macbook pro and my laptop only has one firewire port. Now I keep my external HD plugged into that port. Now I noticed the back of my hd has another firewire port. Is it possible to keep the hd connected to my laptop and then connect the camcorder to the back of the external HD? Also, I have an external hd connected to one of my usb ports. I know everyone prefers firewire over usb, but would I be able to connect the camcorder to the laptop via firewire and dump video to the usb external drive? And work it that way if the first way doesn't work? Sorry for the essay lol, but I really would like to find this out. I should have my camcorder tuesday and I wanna start soon as I get it. Thanks
Hi
And just to add in.
Daisy Chaining most often can be problematic.
To make the best of it.
• When You done as Karsten writes - formatted it as Mac OS Extended
• Free up space on Your lap-top by moving files over to the new external drive
• This to make it possibly to Capture Your movie to the Internal Hard Disk
Pumping data from Camera via external drive into lap-top then back again to
the external drive can be too much.
• I would start the new movie on the internal drive - Capture
• then move it out to the external one after closing iMovie
• then cont. to work on the external version of it
Yours Bengt W
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