A firewire hard disk can be used for capturing DV directly from or to camcorder?

[kwonguyber]

Can I use Firewire HD for using capturing directly from camcorder ?

Also, I have to use several remote computer.

So. using a firewire hard disk could be the best solution if it has no problem in capturing directly from camcorder and Premiere editing.

I read in the forum "A firewire hard disk will not perform near as well as if it's on an IDE controller. However a 7200RPM firewire hard disk will outperform a 4200RPM IDE hard disk"

Thanks!!

 

[McCarthy]

Don't know, firewire is peer to peer, but this question goes beyond me. So I'll give you a free bump while saying...

Yes, an external firewire drive will be slower than if it were an interal if you're talking a fast drive like a current 7200. An older slower drive which has a sustained transfer rate slower than what firewire can provide will not make full use of the it, while with a faster drive the situation will be reversed where you won't be able to make full use of the drive's abilities all the time. Always a bottleneck somewhere.

I hope that does work for, that'd be extremely handy. I just don't know 🙁

--Mc

 

[vetteguy]

Yes, you can capture directly from a DV camcorder to a firewire drive. (Unless there are some combinations that don't allow that, but to my knowledge you can do that with any).

As far as speed, firewire is what, 400mb/s? That works out to what, 50MB/s? As long as the hard drive can handle that then the drive shouldn't be a bottleneck, but a slower drive would increase seek times.