A Good Fire Wire For HVX 200?

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Charcole

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Hi, I'm new and was wondering what a good brand of Fire Wire for an HVX 200 and Mac would be? Got a 'good' one from Best Buy but the computer or camera will not even read it. What type of fire wire kicks ass on HD footage?
 
for the most part, there is no drive that is going to "kick ass" more than any other. it either works or it doesnt. i cant imagine why - other than flat out drive failure why a mac wouldnt even see a drive??? what brand is it? remember most ANY drive you buy will come preformatted for windows. you need to use your mac disk utility to reformat it as mac extended NON journaled before using it.

search this and other forums for "firewire" from my experience, stay away from ANYTHING by LaCie, or western digital. or really ANYTHING you can get at bestbuy, officedepot, compusa kinds of places. maxtor used to be pretty flakey as well, but it seems to me that their quality has improved a great deal with their recent purchase by seagate. i have 3 of their onetouch lll drives (usb2.0/firewire800) and they all work well so far.

if youre using an HVX a standard firewire 400 drive isnt going to do well. i have had them work, but not super well. they are too slow. you need firewire 800.

if i were to advise you i would HIGHLY suggest these guys. ive never heard a single complaint from ANYONE using their products. i have a couple of their tripple and quad interface drives and they work beautifully.

http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/1394/USB/EliteAL/
 
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What Mac?

What version of QT, Final Cut Pro, and operating system?

Are you referring to a hard drive, or a firewire cable?

Use for editing?

And what does "kick ass" mean with reference to what you are doing?
 
Make sure the cable isn't more than 15 feet / 4.5 meters long -- that's the official limit for IEEE 1394a. Considerably longer cables are sometimes used for DV, but the high transfer rates of DVCProHD and hard drives will cause problems.
 
for the most part a cable is a cable. as long as you have metal on metal youre fine. its not like in the audio world where there are a ton of external things that effect your end product.
 
There's a happy medium somewhere between a $0.50 cable and a $50.00 cable.

You don't want to get ripped off and overpay, but I wouldn't get the cheapest cable either, especially if it involves a 6-pin to 4-pin cable. If the cable is poorly constructed and allows the pins that supply current to come into contact with the data pins, something will get fried.
 
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