IMovie and hard drives shared by airport extreme?

Am I doing something wrong? Both my hard drives shared out by my airport have a warning symbol on them and they are not available to use for importing from my camcorder. Should the drives be formatted a certain way, or is there some setting or something in the airport I need to use?
Thanks in advance...
Corey

Hi
I do not know - BUT I can guess
• AirPort - to slow to work - any set-up
• external hard disks - YES they MUST be formatted in a certain way
MUST be - Mac OS Extended formatted - to work with video !
(UNIX/DOS/FAT32/Mac OS Exchange - Will NOT WORK)
• connection speed
a. e-Sata (internally in eg a Mac Pro) - best to my knowledge
b. FireWire 800 - 400 - best choise for external hard disks
c. /USB2 - performs badly
d. Net-works eg AirPort - to slow to be able to be used for SD-video and far far from HD-video.
Yours Bengt W

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