Importing to an external hard drive.

Hello mac forum users,
I'm working on composing video to put on DVD from my canon 50. I've used it before to edit 1 60 min tape to put on a DVD. This time I'm wanting to edit 3x60min tapes. I don't have enough room left on my hard drive for that. I was hoping that I could be able to import the video to my external drive however when I plug in the camera with the drive mounted the camera isn't functioning. If I unmount the drive and get the camera ready in iMovie and then mount the drive it freezes then crashes. I did a general search but nothing turned up in this sub forum. I did see in the iMovie HD that the drive needed to be formated as "Extended" which mine is. Is it possible to do so with iMovie 4.0.1 or do I need a newer, HD version. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Maximilian

Does your Powerbook support a PCMCIA card slot? If so, I think one solution many Apple laptop users have done in the past is to buy a PCMCIA Firewire card which will show up on the Powerbook as a separate Firewire bus. Because they are on different busses now, there is no longer a conflict or crash between the two devices on the same chain.
Alternative, plug in the external drive, and move as much stuff from the internal drive as you can to free up space. Unplug the external, hook up the camera and import your footage from one tape. Disconnect the camera. Close iMovie. Hook up the external again and then transfer the iMovie project to the external drive. Delete it from the internal drive. Repeat with the camera to import the next tape, disconnect, transfer to external.
Once you get all the tapes on the external drive, you are free to work on your project directly off the external drive.
Patrick

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