File transfer reccomendations!

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Palind

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Question: Can I use a USB cable to do my video/audio file transfers or should I be using a firewire? Here's the situation:
I have 24PN footage shot with my HVX200AP. I downloded it to a portable 7200 SATA, hard drive in the field (via the 1394 host setting) I have transferred this to my main 1TB hard drive, for editing with Premiere Pro CS4. I transferred the footage using a USB cable to through my computer. All of the footage looks great: video, audio works great. I have not yet finished the project or burned it to DVD. I have recently become concerned that I should be using a Firewire cable to do all of my file transfers. So I purchased a Express card with fire wire ports and transfered a file to my main drive. The FW footage looks the same on the monitors in PP as the USB. The Firewire transfer took 3 1/2 hours though. Via USB it took only 25 min, about the same time it took to transfer the original footage from the camera/P2 to my field hard drive. (FW transfer files and USB transferred files are exactly the same size) Does anyone have a definative answer to this? (Any senior members have any reccomendations on this?)

Thanks, Palind
 
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Thanks for the reply, but I would preffer to us USB at it takes much less time. 25 Min for USB vs 3 1/2 hours for firewire! I don't know why.
 
To be perfectly honest, it wouldn't matter too much.

Using the hard drive is fine like i said, i could of swore you said firewire in your first post.
 
All drives have fire wire and USB ports

All drives have fire wire and USB ports

All of the drives I am using have Firewire and USB ports. I dont know if when the file is transffered through the electronics of the drive and or the USB cable itself will interfere with the video/audio files. I suspect that using a USB port and USB cable will produce exactly the same results as using the firewire port and Firewire cable. (I just don't know this for sure) I am just concerned there will be some weird glitch down the road while editing, or when I transfer or view the finished product on DVD.

Thanks, Palind
 
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