FS-100 copyt to Hard Drive without FCP????

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ajmax

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Can you copy your contents from the Fs-100 to a portable a hard drive with out going through FCP?
Situation:
I am planning on shooting in 720 Quicktime PN on the FS-100 and I have to give the footage to a producer when we are done so he can get on a plane...
Normally we would just pop the tape and off he went...
I don't want to buy a portable macbook just yet.
So I was wondering if after I shoot, I can just copy the FS-100 to a hard drive?
If so how and what will he need on the other side to open it once he gets back to his office?
 
You don't need FCP to copy contents of FS-100. It mounts like a hard drive, so all you have to do is mount it to your computer and copy the files to the appropriate disk. I never import directly from the FS-100. I always copy the files to a media drive and import from there. You can't just attach a hard drive and copy.

One of the cool features of the Cineporter will be removable hard drives. So, you just pop out the drive, give it to your colleague and just put in an enclosure or use a Wiebetech drive dock to connect to computer.

Ned Soltz
 
So I just can't plug a hard drive into the computer port on=f the FS-100.
Is that correct?
I don't have a macbook computer for this on location project...
I have a Gateway PC will that work?
or does it need to be mac based?
Even If i am recording Quicktime PN
or if i Need to shoot P2 PN???

What if i don't use the FS-100 and rent P2 cards.
After I record can I connect a portable hard drive o my HVX camera and send the files down to the hard drive?
If so, can it be a Quicktime or if I record on P2 will it just be a P2 signal?
 
Correct. You just can't plug in a hard drive.

Any computer which supports firewire can mount the FS-100. All you are doing is transferring data. It is up to the NLE to be able to handle that data.

Yes. You can download from the P2 card to an attached hard drive.

It is all in the manual and in Barry's book. Good idea to study those to learn to operate as complex a piece of gear as the HVX.
 
You can copy the FS-100 on any computer, Mac or PC, without FCP, no problem.

If you shoot in Quicktime PN mode you can copy those files directly off the FS-100. If you shoot in P2 or P2/PN mode, you'll have to "Organize P2" before you can copy the files off.

The copied files can be used on either type of computer, so you could use the Gateway to copy the files off to an external hard disk, and then plug that external hard disk into a Mac, no problem. Just make sure that the external hard disk is formatted FAT32.
 
Barry if i put my stuff recorded on the FS-100 Quicktime PN and hook up to a PC to transfer to a Harddrive. the hard drive needs to be formatted FAT 32...
when the copy is complete they can take their harddrive and pug it into a mac even though we used a PC to do the transfer?
Is that correct?
Ray
 
ajmax said:
Barry if i put my stuff recorded on the FS-100 Quicktime PN and hook up to a PC to transfer to a Harddrive. the hard drive needs to be formatted FAT 32...
when the copy is complete they can take their harddrive and pug it into a mac even though we used a PC to do the transfer?
Is that correct?
Ray
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The hard drive you copy your data to from the FS-100 can be in any format you want it to be in. FAT32 is used as it's fast and reliable, in conjunction with a very small CPU, for small video devices like this.

As for being able to plug a hard dive directly to the FS for data dumps, it'd be a losing proposition. The FS-100 runs on a very tiny, tiny CPU, when compared to your computer's CPU. Focus Enhancements could physically make it able to dump directly to a hard drive, but due to the tiny CPU used, it'd take forever to transfer, and pretty much be a useless feature.
 
ajmax said:
when the copy is complete they can take their harddrive and pug it into a mac even though we used a PC to do the transfer?
Is that correct?
Ray
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Yes, completely correct. You can use a Windows PC to do the transfers, and a Mac to do the editing. Works fine, I've done it many times.

Just make sure that the external drive is formatted as FAT32. Both Windows and Mac can read FAT32 drives, so it's universally interchangeable.
 
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