Importing video to external hard drive

How do I import DV directly to my LaCie external hard drive? I've daisy-chained my camcorder, hard drive, and powerbook via fire wire. I need the most basic step-by-step instructions required to tell the powerbook to send the video directly to the external drive. Apologies in advance. For most of you, this question is sub-moronic.

Re David's comment "..Don't daisy chain the camera.." ..I've never had any trouble when 'daisy-chaining' a (Sony) camcorder through an external drive, except for the first time I tried (..with a LaCie or maybe a Western Digital box..) when it made a big difference which socket the camcorder was in.
It didn't work with the cam in the socket further from the power input to the external drive; it did work perfectly with the cam in the socket nearer the power input. (..Obviously, this doesn't apply if your drive has no separate power supply, but is driven by power from the Mac down the FireWire cable.)
So if it doesn't work with the cables one way round, try swapping the cables/sockets.
This may not work for other people, and maybe not with some drives or camcorders ..but I just thought I'd mention that it's never caused problems for me ..neither with 'name' drives like LaCie, WD, etc, nor with 'no-name' generic hard drive boxes ..as long as they have two FW sockets.
(..Ah: a possible exception; I can't remember if it worked or not with drives which had both FW800 and FW400 connections. Maybe I'll try that again tonight, to see if it does work when using FW800 for the computer-to-drive connection and FW400 for the drive-to-camcorder connection..)

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It sounds like you want to be able to import your video to an external drive rather than your internal drive to save space.
First, you'll need to create an iMovie library on your external hard drive. Take a look at the "Create a new library" section here: http://help.apple.com/imovie/mac/10.0/#mov3fa25bae7
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http://help.apple.com/imovie/mac/10.0/#movbc953953e
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Do one of the following:
To choose an existing event to contain the imported clips: Choose the event from the “Import to” pop-up menu at the top of the Import window.
To create a new event to contain the imported clips: Choose New Event from the “Import to” pop-up menu, type a name for the new event, and press Return.
To learn more about events, see Organize your events and projects.
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