[geeks] digicam envy

Bill Bradford mrbill at mrbill.net
Mon Jul 15 09:46:46 CDT 2002


On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 10:00:34AM -0400, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> Firewire, it seems, isn't see good if you have more than 1 device on
> it.  Even though firewire seems like it should be more than fast
> enough, you can't copy video from a firewire camera to a firewire
> harddrive via a computer reliably.  

You cant?  Then what the fuck have I been doing for the past six months?

I've got about two hours of clips so far (about 10 CDs worth of Quicktime;
at one point about 40G worth of DV-quality captures on HD)... 

Maybe not reliably with a *PC*.  My Mac handles it JUST FINE.

Bill

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