Using a firewire harddrive on hvx200

[vincent65]

Has there been any definitive answers on using a a firewire hard drive on the hvx200 as apposed to using the firestore device?

[MrVideo]

Has there been any definitive answers on using a a firewire hard drive on the hvx200 as apposed to using the firestore device?

Yes, in the HVX200 users manual it talks about attaching a Firewire drive in 1394 Host Mode but that is only for copying P2 content to. You can not copy a video stream from the camera to a Firewire drive.

However, attaching that drive to a MacBook Pro and streaming it through the computer works!

[THoff]

Of course there have been definite answers -- the facts are well-known and have been kicked around ad nauseam. Answers can be found using the SEARCH feature.

Long story short, you can dump P2 card contents to a SBP2-compliant Firewire drive, but you can't record to such a drive live because the hard drive doesn't have the brains to interpret and decode the DV stream. For that, you need a DTE solution like the FS-100.

[vincent65]

I guess thats settles that. Thanks for the info.