Using SXS cards with HVX-200 DUEL SYSTEMS

yakamasa

yakamasa

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Hello, bored with Xmas slow moving time I was browsing panasonic website and found a link to http://www.duel-systemsadapters.com/ was thinking if it is possible to use this http://www.duel-systemsadapters.com/?productid=DP-0002 Duel adapter cradle inside my Panasonic HVX-200 camera when I put inside SXS card?? Why to do like this? Answer is simple: I have bought my HVX ages ago one of the very first so I didn't get any of the P2 cards after time bought one 8Gb which was very expensive... and still is...so browsing website such as http://www.creativevideo.co.uk/public/view_item_cat.php?catalogue_number=sony_sbp-8 found that Maybe buying such adapter I could have few 8Gb SXS cards with an adapter and finally could forget about lack of space on my cards... and constantly downloading p2 on to my MBP...
The question is if it will work and if it's worth it?
 
I don't know about 120 pounds; that translates to about $175. Here in the USA an 8GB SxS card is about $430. The prices for all SxS memory are about the same as all P2 memory over here.
 
I take it Pannasonic would probably release such an adapter if they ever switch to the Expresscard formfactor. I love P2 but hate the fact that PCMCIA has died so quickly in the laptop world.
 
I have been today on Broadcast Show in Earls Court, London and seen SXS 16Gb cards for bargain price of £150 what can U say abut that?? And at the same stand I have asked for P2 16 Gb. Price wasn't so pleasant £450. BUt why it is so expensive? I remember when I have bought my HVX200 there where 2, 4Gb cards for loads of money and people said that when they introduce higher capacity cards, smaller will go cheaper... and what, I'm asking they stopped producing 2,4 and 8Gb cards and what's left it's still very expensive. By the way there was no PANASONIC stand on the show...Why?
 
Where are you finding these amazing low prices on SxS? Are you sure it's actual SxS brand, and not just some Lexar SSD or something? CreativeVideo.co.uk lists a 16GB SxS card at £429 plus VAT.

And Panasonic Europe doesn't bother with trade shows anymore. They pulled out of IBC years ago and said they were spending their marketing dollars going to the customers, rather than torching a lot of money on trade show booths and waiting for people to come to them.
 
alexdias said:
Do you know any other new released product, other than Panasonic, that comes with it?
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The capture seems fairly unrelated to how you can insert it into a laptop if that is what you are doing.

Use USB2 or firewire.

But many of us don't use a laptop to ingest. We capture to several p2 cards and then ingest later using usb2 or firewire.

Unless you edit exclusively on a laptop, there are multiple solutions to ingest p2 cards to a workstation.

If p2 doesn't work for you, best use something else.
 
If anyone is looking for a low-cost, highly flexible workflow solution there are a few threads here about upgrading the drives in FS-100s.

I agree that P2 is expensive, but to be quite honest it's an amazing bit of tech that required some R&D into not just the card but many systems.

Here's the options:
1. Capture directly to a computer
2. Use P2
3. Use a FS-100

If you want the most bang for the buck, capture to a laptop, if your looking for ultimate portability use the P2, if you want decent portability that's extremely flexible use the fs-100....and if you can deal with a small amount of techie type stuff crack open that fs-100 and upgrade the drive...it's quite an option!
 
Barry, I think Panasonic pretty much used the london broadcast expo to launch the HPX301.

I didn't end up going, but it was on the show blurb. (I do know several people who had hands on with the HPX301 at the show.)
 
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