Outputting to tape via MacBook with Lacie Drive?

So this may have been covered but I can't find it so here it goes: The MacBook has only 1 Firewire port. I'm looking for suggestions for outputting to tape when also using a Lacie Drive which occupies the port. Hooking the Lacie up via the USB won't be fast enough right? So this means figuring out an alternate way to lay off to tape from FCPHD. Does this mean rendering the sequence out as .mov file? If so, which codec is going to give it as close to the same resolution as if I was laying off directly from the FCPHD Print to video?

It depends on the camera npeovideo is using: Canon cameras seem not to like to be daisy chained with LaCie drives... even though mine (Canon MVX4i = Optura 600) works perfectly. But from the other posts in this forum I'm probably an exception.
So I suggest npeovideo first tries daisy chaining. If it works, OK.
If it doesn't work, the only solution I can think of is to copy the project media from the LaCie into the internal hard drive (and reconnect it), disconnect the LaCie drive and print to video to the camcorder, directly connected to the Macbook firewire port. Using USB connection for the external drive might lead to dropped frames and loss of quality.
As an alternative, in order to reduce the need for internal disk space, and in case npeovideo edited a short movie out of an originally long raw movie, he could: a. Export > Quicktime Movie, self contained, (not: Using QuickTime Conversion) to the internal disk drive, b. create a new FCE project where you import that movie into a new sequence, and c. without any further editing, just print to video that sequence (after disconnecting the LaCie drive as above).
I hope some of this may solve the problem.
Piero

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Greetings all!
I am AGAIN having problems with my Lacie Big Disk. This thing has caused all sorts of problems on three separate occasions. This morning when I went to do some work in FCP, I noticed that I kept getting the "beachball" everytine I did anything. I went to the finder, and accessed the Big Disk from there, and got the same problem.
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I had the same problem after the security update. Did all the usual things: repaired permissions & verified hard drive from the start up cd, did the fsck -y repair all for nothing. Then I read somewhere on this forum about another type of check, short of zapping the pram, or what ever it is called in Intel Mac's. I powered down everything and then removed all peripherals from the computer, including the keyboard and mouse. I also unplugged the external lacie drive from the wall. Then I waited 30 minutes. I plugged all but the external drive back in and re-did the permission / drive repairs. Then I repowered the external drive and reattached it. Rebooted the computer and everything loaded and worked just fine. In fact, all applications and anything I do on the computer is now much quicker.

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Hi h
1. LaCie seems to be most recommended in this forum. I got a ForMac one
(old but good when copying home brewed DVDs)
2. Set-up ? Should work. Only thing that might be problematic is that using
iDVD is a hard disk space needing/consuming activity.
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Hi,
I have an network Lacie drive (1GB) that I just connected to my local network. I started the time machine, and after a few minutes I get this error message:
"The backup disk image "/Volumes/openshare/Peter Lauri's MacBook.sparsebundle" could not be created (error 45)."
Anything I can do about this? Anyone that has a Time Machine setup working with Lacie drive or other network drive?
/Peter

akapetchy wrote:
Hi V.K.-
I have a 2TB Lacie 2Big NAS drive, hooked to a Linksys router, that I thought (based on this forum) would not work with Time Machine. Last night, I found in the "share" properties, a box to check to make it the "share" compatible with Time Machine. I checked the box and Time Machine recognized the NAS drive "share" and was able to use it with no issues (so far) - I have my mac tied to the router with an ethernet cable. Lacie explicitly says on its product info page that this drive is "compatible with Time Machine" and it appears it is...
So, are "compatibile with" and "supported" different?
yes, they are. supported are the devices that are officially supported by apple and are guaranteed by apple to work for TM backups. that btw includes working now and also in the future after any possible updates to time machine. anything else you may want to use for TM backups apple makes no promises about. if you run into problems with such devices- you are on your own as far as apple is concerned.
now, all that said, there are a few 3rd party NAS devices that came out relatively recently (that includes your Lacie NAS) that claim to support TM backups. they have no blessings from apple to say such things but TM does seem to work and work quite well with such devices. for example, I don't think I've heard any complaints about problems with your Lacie NAS model as a TM drive.
so that's how things stand. AFAIK, the reason why some NASes work and others don't with TM are mostly technical and have to do with whether or not a particular NAS model implements all the features of afp that TM needs to work correctly.

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