External drive specs

I have shot some video on DV Cam format. I need to send it all to a friend who will edit it on his FCP system. Here's my plan: digitize the video through iMovie at the highest quality through a firewire, saving it to an external drive and send him the drive when I am done. (It's six hours worth of footage.) I want to keep the original tape safe with me.
Here's my question: when I go to buy an external drive for this purpose, does it have to have a certain speed requirement? I'm clear on how big it needs to be, but do I need to be careful on some other technical requirements? I hope to find a decent, small, inexpensive external drive. Any suggestions?
Thank you.

Bad idea...send him the tape, let him capture with FCP.
#20 Using iMovie to Capture for FCP edit
Shane's Stock Answer #20: Using iMovie to Capture for use in FCP.
iMovie handles the media differently from FCP, specifically where audio is concerned. So it is not a recommended workflow. Here's why...
iMovie captures using DV Stream (.dv) standard which does not use timecode. That is a big disadvantage over the way that FCP captures in that you can't go back and recapture the material at a later date if you need to revisit a project.
The DV/NTSC specification (the one FCP uses) also calls for seperate tracks for audio and video, even if you capture it as one clip. iMovie' DV stream format is muxed audio and video, which means that they are tied together (I can't get into specifics because I ain't no engineer or programmer). FCP is a bit more demanding and captures the seperate audio/video tracks, either in a single media file or as seperate video and audio files. With FCP you could capture video only or audio only because each is defined by the DV specs. while with iMovie you can't.
Also, if you drop the iMovie footage into the timeline, your will get the RED render bar forcing you to render the footage in order to see it. You can use either QT Pro or Compressor to convert the .dv footage into DV/NTSC in order for FCP to work with it without needing to render.
Shane

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