Record to internal or external drive ?

Hello, I've been recording directly to my external HD, a Glyph, since I started with Logic Express. Last night I was recording a live performance and afterwards a gentleman, with a lot of recording experience, said my recording path was wrong. He said that I should be recording directly to my MacBook Pro. My current setup is: Fireface 400 to the Glyph then to my MacBook Pro. If I remember correctly this is how I was told by my Sweetwater engineer. Is this wrong? Thanks for any input, brookb

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Internal and External Drive Recording Sequences

I have a QIP 7232 MR DVR (500 MD internal drive) with an eSata 1T WD drive attached. This external drive is one of those specified by VZ for this application. The system operates according to specifications and performs quite well. Just thought I'd pass along a recent observation about where content is recorded on the system.
As is well known, a setup like mine will record content to the external drive preferentially until it is full. When that happens, the system will record content on the internal drive. However evidently that's not always the case, as I learned recently while recording the French Open tennis tournament.
The program is being broadcast on Tennis channel HD, ESPN2, NBC, and probably a few other channels. I have chosen to record as much of the tournament as possible using the "Record Series" option for all channels. This results in quite a bit of recording time, somewhere in the neighborhood of 14 plus hours per day (20 hours a day on selected weekend days). That's almost more tennis than I can stand to watch, but so be it.
What I noticed is that the system does not in fact record exclusively to the external drive until it is full, but instead records some of the material to the internal drive well before the external drive is exhausted. This is the first time I've observed this behavior since setting up the equipment.
Some of the recordings are 9 hours long, so it appears that the system is taking that into account somehow and trying not to get into a situation with insufficient space on the external drive. However when this recording pattern was first observed, my external drive was showing about 80 hours HD content and roughly 53 % used capacity. It's possible that at some time during the last few days there actually was much more recorded material on the external drive and it defaulted to the internal drive for that reason. If that's the case, I did not notice it at the time, but in any case I don't recall ever seeing an indication of higher than approximately 73% on the external drive. I make it a practice to record selected material to DVD if I want to hold it permanently.
As I said all's working well but I just thought I'd pass along this apparently anomalous behavior.

Hi armond_in_nj,
Thanks for the info. I have no personal experience with this, but Walrus has an interesting post regarding his experience with this issue. Thought you might be interested.
http://forums.verizon.com/t5/FiOS-TV-Technical-Assistance/Fios-external-DVR-storage-sequence/m-p/559...
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How do I Move Events from an Internal to External drive?

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I am trying to move events on my internal drive to my new external drive. Everything is set up and I see the external drive, but after reading other posts and replies it seems I can't just move the files from the internal to external drive by dragging and dropping using finder.
Can anyone give some guidance on how I do this so i don't have to reload all my videos on the external drive.
Also, when they are moved over, will i see the external drive when I open iMovie, or do I ahve to do something to see it in my Events Library.
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Can anyone give some guidance on how I do this so i don't have to reload all my videos on the external drive.
Best approach is to import files directly to the external drive during the initial import process by selecting the appropriate drive in the import window. However, for Events already stores, here is A QUICKIE VIDEO TUTORIAL.
Also, when they are moved over, will i see the external drive when I open iMovie, or do I ahve to do something to see it in my Events Library.
You must activate the "external drive" icon in iMovie '08 to make your external drives visible in the Event Library list. (I.e. Press the icon to the right of the "Event Library" title and to the left of the actual Event Window.) Sorry, answered your e-mail message before seeing the second question here.

Leopard. Did a full restore from Time Machine. Now I can't access my other internal and external drives. I get the following error: The folder "Capture Video" can't be opened because you don't have permission to see its contents.

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If you use internal and the machine is stolen your backup is lost too.
If it's for backing up for Business use, your insurers may insist on offsite storage, secure offsite storage that is of a backup or they wouldn't pay up.
External is often good too because if you ever sent the machine in for repair and the fault(s) were mis-diagnosed and the engineers wiped the HD, they may wipe your backup too.
That would be very unfortunate. At least with external it could be safe with you. Depending how important your backups are you can also 'Scale' your backup by adding more drives to backup to. So increasin odds of recovery at a later date.
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I have had my music on the boot drive, a second internal drive and an external hard drive, and have found that with a G5, having the music on the boot drive results in the least amount of lag time from track selection to play, since that drive is almost always active.
However, since I have a very large music and video library, keeping it on the internal drive was not a good idea, so I moved it to an external drive. Although this was a 10,000 rpm firewire EIDE drive, there was still considerable lag time from selection to play. I ended up with a second internal SATA drive that has some lag time, but much less than the dedicated external.
I have never heard that having music on an internal drive slows down the processing power. I've never experienced any degradation of performance when iTunes was merely playing music, but if I was playing and managing music (creating playlists, importing tracks or adding art) at the same time, there was some slowdown between tracks until I added more memory (from 1 gb to 3 gb).
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I am new to Mac. I have a Macbookpro using 10.6.7.
I used boot camp to add a partition to my internal drive so I could add some much needed PC apps. Before adding apps I decided to rough it and deleted the partition, But when I use get info for the drive I do not see the space added back to the total available. Is there something that I forgot to do? The boot camp partition no longer appears in the sidebar of finder.
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I have a Mac Book Pro with Lion OSX installed. I have an external fire wire hard drive connected which contains my iTunes Library. I would like to use Time Machine to backup both the internal drive and the attached external drive. Can this be done?

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I know this is a basic question . I did a few searches and my head started spinning .
I've been using an external drive for my music but it only has 3GB left .
My internal drive has 12GB so I would like to start to use it for storage of music along with the external . (I'll be getting a new mac soon)
In Importing I have >Create file names with track number
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When your new Mac arrives and you want to transfer the library, first copy the entire 'iTunes' folder (in ./Users/YourUsername/Music) from your eMac to the exact same location on the new Mac.
To transfer the iTunes folder, you can burn it on CD or DVD, but a lot easier is to put the eMac in Firewire target mode.
This article tells you how to do that:
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The new Mac will have a newer iTunes version and it will take some time to convert the old library format to the new format.
Once all works OK and If you want all your music on your new Mac, use the 'Consolidate Library...' command from the Advanced menu in the menubar.
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The project file only contains pointers to the media and is a relatively small document.
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Mac Drive: What internal or external drives can I 'see' from OSX or Bootcamp?

Hi All,
I am having a bit of a hard time trying to finalize my port over to macintosh and I am hoping someone can help me understand what I should be able to "see" from where I can see this on my network. I would like to move some data temporarily OFF an external hard drive and ONTO the Internal Drive #1 temporarily so I can use this External Drive for another purpose. But again I can't figure out if I should see this External Drive (C below) and be able to move it to this internal BootCamp drive (#1 below).
I have MacDrive installed on all Windows installs and have the following in my MacPro:
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Is it possible to get a handle on whether I need to actually boot into the Window 7 BootCamp Internal HD in order to move this data to this drive and whether I should be able to see this Boot Camp Drive from within OSX? I mean, can I move the data from the Mac Formatted External Drives to the Boot Camp Drive without booting into Boot Camp? Can I see these Mac Formatted Externals from Boot Camp (assuming I have Mac Drive Installed?
Should I expect to see the Time Capsule from the Boot Camp drives?!
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OK, you are half way there...
The MacDrive software allows the Windows side to read and write to the MacOS partition. You are correct, there is a Paragon software you could have purchased for about the same price. Six of one, half a dozen of the other. Both products work well. For some things one may be slightly better than the other, but either should work fine for what you want. With this, you should be set when you boot into WIndows using BootCamp.
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I have one of the original Airport Extremes and I'm wondering if the new software that comes with the new Airport (Time Capsule) will allow me to use it with an external drive for Time Machine. I know it currently doesn't work as currently configured, but I would think it would be a trivial matter to make it work, How about it Apple?

Presumably the only software which will ship with Time Capsule is "AirPort Utility" to configure Time Capsule.
Speculation on whether any version of Time Capsule's firmware will be compatible with the AirPort Extreme base station (AEBS) is forbidden in this discussion area.
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