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Posted by Soundhaspriority on 01/03/07 19:01
"Ty Ford" <tyreeford@comcast.net> wrote in message
news:sbWdnYzna934TgbYnZ2dnUVZ_oninZ2d@comcast.com...
> Last week I plugged my Canon XL2 into my Mac Ti book via firewire and
> recorded a couple of short videos into iMovie HD.
>
> I'm wondering if anyone has done something similar but used the PCMCIA
> card
> slot on the laptop and a PCMCIA to Firewire card to feed the video to an
> external firewire drive.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ty Ford
>
There has been a lot of discussion about this on rec.video.desktop. You may
run into a resource contention problem. In many cases, with Centrino chipset
computers, it would be safer to connect the external drive via USB 2.0. Try
the method you propose first, and see.
Bob Morein
Dresher, PA
(215) 646-4894
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