We are in the process of testing various FireWire drives as they come out. These drives are suitable for the backup and transport of broadcast quality Quicktime clips from one editing suite to another, and due to their ability to be hot-swapped, are particularly valuable for this task. We're not sure whether the TIL Phil cites simply is a short-term cover for Apple until a FireWire drive is soon found to give professional capture results, or if the TIL indicates that it may be a while until such a drive is found. We invite other readers to propose their counter-solutions. We've had many responses to Phil's question about video capture and editing with Final Cut Pro with the PowerBook G4.
Many different solutions are available for video caputure on a TiBook.
First the most obvious one is the internal hard drive. The PowerBook G4 can be BTO with up to 30GB of internal storage space. This is a good amount of space for video for the average user. If you don't want to clutter your internal hard drive with video captures, an external Firewire drive is the best choice. The first version of Firewire drivers from Apple did not work well with capturing footage to a firewire disk, but the current Firewire drivers are very well suited for digital video capture.