Please help : first time user

[Petr Tomkevich]

Hello we just got the RED ONE come in a couple of days ago. I am not new to FCP and I am wondering how I can actually transfer the footage from the 16gb compact flash cards to a drive. Do I use a card reader or can I simply hook up the camera to the computer via USB? Which I have tried but failed. Please respond, I don't know where to begin.

Thanks for reading,
Petr

 

[Jeff Kilgroe]

Use a good card reader. The Lexar Pro UDMA and SanDisk UDMA Firewire 800 readers are best.

 

[ericyoung]

http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthread.php?t=41143

 

[Petr Tomkevich]

Thanks a lot, I appreciate it.

 

[Philip Allister Anderson]

I am having lots of luck with the Addonics esata card reader. A firewire 800 will bottleneck your transfers if your drives are sata. Also use a good checksum software. I like R3D data manager, which I use.