Lacie Firewire Drive getting on my nerves

[revenuee]

I bought an Lacie d2 80 Gig Firewire drive (400 m/bits version) last week for my video editing work.

This thing is really getting on my nerves - When capturing from mini DV, i'm getting a ton of dropped frames and the picture has lots of artifacts, and the picture is very jumpy.

I thought that perhaps this was a problem with my settings, so i tested it out by capturing to my Internal ATA hard drive, and i found that the image was perfect-

Whats the problem, am i missing something in the preferences? should i capture to internal drives and then transfer over to the external drive?

any advice, experiences?

EDIT: i am using final cut pro 4.0

 

[jacg]

My 160Gb d2 works fine

On my 800Mhz 17" iMac. It's connected direct to the iMac and the DV deck is attached to the other firewire port. A friend had problems using an iBook because of the daisychaining of the camera and HD. Are you using one FW port or two?

 

[revenuee]

Re: My 160Gb d2 works fine

Originally posted by jacg
On my 800Mhz 17" iMac. It's connected direct to the iMac and the DV deck is attached to the other firewire port. A friend had problems using an iBook because of the daisychaining of the camera and HD. Are you using one FW port or two?

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I'm running my Camera into port 1 and my hard drive into port 2

it's wierd because it looked better when i captured in iMovie, i thought that FCP would work better

but yes ... running it into two seperate ports

 

[benixau]

iMovie uses CPU to copmress the data.
FCP is not compressing it.

So?

FCP is capturing more data and putting a bigger strain on your HDD + RAM.
This is a 'known' problem and the only 'known' way to fix it is to capture to your primary HDD, move it to the FW drive and then reconect the media once your done.

 

[Sun Baked]

A lot of the FW400 chipsets sucked, because there wasn't any big need to improve them.

The second generation Oxford 922 chipset is much better, but it would also mean buying a FW800 drive.

Haven't seen any review if the FW800 drive used in place of the FW400 would work for you, or not. Nor have I heard if the new chipset solves the HD to camera daisy chain problem either.

But capturing to the internal HD, then moving it to the external FW400 HD, is probably a decent workaround.

 

[jacg]

yes but

I'm capturing fine to a FW400 drive using FCP3 on an original 17" iMac.

I'm just getting FCP4 so I hope it still works!

 

[HasanDaddy]

that's weird --- I captured a lot of things to an external Lacie drive, and it always seemed fine

but yes -- capture internally, and then transfer

 

[revenuee]

This is just not my week

First after i install OS 10.2 my SCSI drive won't mount, so i'm out 20 GIGS untill i can find a thirdpart Firmware

Now this Firewire drive problem -

man that sucks, i only have 4 gigs left on my internal - since my SCSI won't work, this is going to take a long time, i have 5 hours of raw footage

 

[Viv]

Originally posted by revenuee
This is just not my week

First after i install OS 10.2 my SCSI drive won't mount, so i'm out 20 GIGS untill i can find a thirdpart Firmware

Now this Firewire drive problem -

man that sucks, i only have 4 gigs left on my internal - since my SCSI won't work, this is going to take a long time, i have 5 hours of raw footage

What SCSI card are you using? is your mac all the way up to date?

Viv