Firewire drive for video capture

Hi, since my Macbook has 80 GB of hardrive, I prefer to capture video footages from my videocam to an external firewire drive. However, the MacBook has only one firewire port. If I buy an external firewire drive with two firewire ports in the enclosure, can I use one of the ports to connect the videocam then use the other port to connect the MacBook's only firewire port like the old SCSI way? Or is it better to capture the video footages in a USB 2 hardrive so that the videocam can connect directly to the MacBook? Thank you.

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