New Portable HDD for HDV/DV25/DVCPro50

[Gibby]

Check out this new portable HDD unit for HDV, DVCPro50, and DV25. It should be able to used with the Z1 (HDV, DV), HD100 (HDV, DV), and the HVX200 (DVCPro50 & DV).

Link: http://www.shining.com/products/totalsolution/citidisk_hdv/

Gibby
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[Editor321]

2 Questions:

HD100
Does this mean I can capture 720/60i uncompressed footage to this thing and eventually transfer via firewire to my NLE (being that Im eliminating capturing to tape)? Wouldn't my NLE with still re-capture this uncompressed footage at 25Mb/s anyway into NLE? Im talking Pinnacle 6.1 HDV NLE specifically.

HVX200
Does this essentially eliminate the P2 cards for some who may have issues with it's capacity?

I may be way off in my questions, but what the hell.

[Gibby]

2 Questions:

HD100
Does this mean I can capture 720/60i uncompressed footage to this thing and eventually transfer via firewire to my NLE (being that Im eliminating capturing to tape)? Wouldn't my NLE with still re-capture this uncompressed footage at 25Mb/s anyway into NLE? Im talking Pinnacle 6.1 HDV NLE specifically.

HVX200
Does this essentially eliminate the P2 cards for some who may have issues with it's capacity?

Uncompressed 720p60 would fill up a 100 gig HDD real fast. The only input mentioned on their web site is Firewire. They just say HDV, without specifying resolutions, so hopefully the HDD will take all resolutions in the HDV spec. Check their web site menus, under Solutions & Products - Total Solutions - Beetle DV. If they would make a Beetle unit that takes component in, compresses it to MPEG2TS, and sends it out via Firewire, It would be a solution to at least get compressed 720p60 footage out of the JVC HD100 for editing high-action sequences.

For the HVX200 & P2, this new HDD will not record DVCPRO-HD, so you would still need a P2 solution or other HDD for that. This HDD would take care of DVCPro50 though, which the HVX200 can't record to tape.

Gibby
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[Barry_Green]

DV50 is another name for DVCPRO50; DV100 is another name for DVCPRO-HD.

Looks interesting that they're supporting DV50! Now let's just hope the product actually works. There were many, many user reports of unreliable operation with the CitiDisk and the QuickStream (same product, different wrapper). If Shining gets it right this time, it could be a very interesting development!

[Glenn_Gipson]

But it will it support JVC Pro HDV 24p?