Transferring Video from an external hard drive onto a mac pro via USB

Hi,
I am planning to buy a Mac Pro in the next couple of weeks, mainly for video editing. Can i trasfer video files onto my mac via usb, or can it only be via Firewire? Also what formats will it accept? I was planning on using AVI or MPEG2

Can i trasfer video files onto my mac via usb, or can it only be via Firewire?
If you mean copying or moving files using the Finder, there is no problem at all.
But if you mean capturing or editing video while media files are stored on an external disk, than Firewire is the right choice, since USB doesn't guarantee sustained throughput (I use USB disks to backup video files, and FW disks to capture/edit video).
Since I guess you'll be using either iMovie or +Final Cut+, the format will be either DV Stream in .dv files for iMovie or .mov (with DV codecs for video and linear PCM for audio) for FCE/FCP. At the end of your editing process you can always convert to AVI or export to a DVD authoring application (e.g. iDVD) that will compress to MPEG2 before burning.
Piero

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