Can't capture to external hard drive!?

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Stone122

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I'm using Final Cut Express and I want to capture my footage directly to my external hard drive, I already have a capture folder on the drive but when i start to capture It just says "Allocating Disk Space" for forever and I can't get out of it and NOTHING is captured. When I capture to the internal hard drive, it works great. What am I doing wrong?
 
It depends on your system specs and the external hard drive speed- not all have the throughput to keep up with capture. A firewire 800 7200rpm drive is no problem. A firewire 400 7200 RPM drive could be a problem. USB External drive- could be a big problem.

Noah
 
Ya know... I've had this issue for awhile now too. I would like to capture directly to my external (WD 7200 - firewire 800), but when I tried a few months back, it crashed FCP and caused all sorts of strange problems...

I didn't even try a fix, I just stopped doing it. Any idea what the problem could be??
 
thanks Noah (I was hoping to hear from you). I have the firewire 400 @ 7200, I'll try an upgrade. Thanks again.
 
What Mac are you on, what version of FCP? Are you absolutly sure you have the correct drive set as your scratch disk?
 
rcbrown23 said:
Ya know... I've had this issue for awhile now too. I would like to capture directly to my external (WD 7200 - firewire 800), but when I tried a few months back, it crashed FCP and caused all sorts of strange problems...

I didn't even try a fix, I just stopped doing it. Any idea what the problem could be??
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Depends on the system specs- a Desktop Mac Pro should have no trouble. An Imac for example could depending on what else is attached, RAM, etc.

Noah
 
NoahK said:
Depends on the system specs- a Desktop Mac Pro should have no trouble. An Imac for example could depending on what else is attached, RAM, etc.

Noah
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I'm on a powermac G5 - Dual 2.0, 1.5gb RAM... it really shouldn't be a problem. Maybe I'll give it another try.
 
When I first started using FC last year I very stupidly used my primary drive (working on a G4 lap top) as the scratch disk. Not long after it gave up on me... Since the Hard drive has been replaced I now use a Lacie LittleBig disk. It's 200GB, firewire 800 and runs 7200rpm. I bought with those specs after taking advice. It runs and captures flawlessly. To anyone looking for an external and who can afford it I would advise trying to stay close to firewire 800 and 7200rpm ...or above!
I've never tried capturing on to a USB drive, but I wouldn't fancy my chances.
 
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