How to import footage to my external

Hi all,
this might be a really silly question but I've never actually had an external hard drive. So usually when I capture footage I just use the fire wire port on my MacBook Pro to capture footage into Final Cut. Now however that fire wire port is used to connect the external hard drive. How do I link up my camera now? There is a second fire wire 800 port on the external hard drive so would it be possible to use that or would the camcorder need to be plugged directly into my MacBook Pro?
If not what can I do?
Thanks
Kevin

Hi Kevin,
When I use my MacBook Pro out in the field, I connect my cam to the MacBook and I run a connection to the external Drive using a USB to Firewire cable from a USB slot on the MacBook or if you have a USB port the the external drive just connect USB on both, this works well. On occasions I've used a USB to Firewire adaptor on another Computer. Don't forget to select the external drive in your FCP preferences before shooting. I use this system while filming mostly sports events.
hope this helps.
Brendan

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