Firestore + XL2

[Hobbes00]

Hi guys, I Plan to get a firestore, i need to capture footage into somesort of HD and transfer it faster than tape due to my job-scope.

Before I go about ordering it, i need comments and advice from you guys..

1) which firestore do you own? / should I get?

2) any potential issues/problem that I may encounter.

3) is there any other altnerative besides focus-enhancement's FS?

appreicate any inputs,
regards
david

[David Del Real]

Bump, I have the same question.

[moonlitnite]

Hi guys, I Plan to get a firestore, i need to capture footage into somesort of HD and transfer it faster than tape due to my job-scope.

Before I go about ordering it, i need comments and advice from you guys..

1) which firestore do you own? / should I get?

2) any potential issues/problem that I may encounter.

3) is there any other altnerative besides focus-enhancement's FS?

appreicate any inputs,
regards
david

Hi David,

If you're doing more gun-and-run films, wedding, etc than the Firestore is a popular choice. However, if you're in a fixed location with power, you might want to consider storing data directly on an external disk drive. For some jobs, I use my laptop running DV Rack. The video comes into the internal firewire port, goes through DV Rack software and gets stored as an AVI. I store the AVI on an external firewire disk drive that I can remove from the laptop and reconnect to my editing workstation, ready for editing. FYI - a firewire port can be used for input or output, but only one direction at a time. So I have a firewire PCMCIA card connected from the laptop to the external firewire disk drive (I use a fast Lacie 400/800 card and 800GB GRAID). I've never had any problems with dropouts using this setup and there's no need to transfer saved video from the camera device to the editing disk. And of course, you've got 10 times the storage over a portable Firestore drive.

Good luck, Michael

[David Del Real]

Hi David,

If you're doing more gun-and-run films, wedding, etc than the Firestore is a popular choice. However, if you're in a fixed location with power, you might want to consider storing data directly on an external disk drive. For some jobs, I use my laptop running DV Rack. The video comes into the internal firewire port, goes through DV Rack software and gets stored as an AVI. I store the AVI on an external firewire disk drive that I can remove from the laptop and reconnect to my editing workstation, ready for editing. FYI - a firewire port can be used for input or output, but only one direction at a time. So I have a firewire PCMCIA card connected from the laptop to the external firewire disk drive (I use a fast Lacie 400/800 card and 800GB GRAID). I've never had any problems with dropouts using this setup and there's no need to transfer saved video from the camera device to the editing disk. And of course, you've got 10 times the storage over a portable Firestore drive.

Good luck, Michael

Thank you for that. I use an iMac now (and I'm on the hunt for a MacBook Pro) so maybe while shooting dramatic clips and other movie shorts I could use Final Cut Pro to capture footage. I will be doing some "run and gun" type shoots as well and I think the Firestore will work quite well in that situation. Thanks again.