Re: New to FCP -- Setup Question

Hi,

I can't tell you the answer however my friend has similar problem. The FW400 and 800 share the same bus, therefore you cannot use them at the same time. Now it would make sense to connect your DVcam to the FW400 and hard drive to the 800. However you wont be able to Print to Video. Of course there is the USB port but that is too slow to run RT for tape output. The Mac people told her to get a SATA card so she can connect her hard drive that way however that not becomes costly.

Is this some kind of stupid mistake Apple made when designing the MacBook Pro? Given the info I know seems like it....

My suggestion to her if she wanted to avoid the SATA card is to export the final sequence with a high compression, like Animation, on to the system HD. Then import back into FCP and then out to tape. Of course in theory there would be some minute down compression but given DV is already compressed it might not matter... Thats my thought.... however don't know if I'm right...