Recording to a hard drive.

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DeeVeeX

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I have a DVX-100A and I was wondering if I could hook up a hard drive and record (through firewire) instead of recording to a tape. I was reading a thread about using another camera as a slave to the DVX, and I had the idea that I might be able to use a hard drive to capture what I shoot instead of a tape.

I'm pretty sure it won't work, but I thought I'd ask.
 
There's the Firestore system, and there's Adobe Premiere "On Location".

The Firestore is pretty cool (I say that because I've got one).

I also have On Location- but only played with it to get a feel for it.
It's very powerful for many reasons.

I don't know if you can just hook it up via firewire without some kind of control for putting the data down to the disk.
Some interface.

Like- in Studio 2 there's the 'live' feature.
Never used that- but it's a possibility.

And On Location will work fine on your MacBook Pro.

Check the book.
good luck.
 
You can capture live footage into FCP via firewire, yes. I've done it many times. On the 'log & capture' settings you would have to manually start recording it by using the 'non-controllable' option. I believe this would work out for you.
 
Lake Films said:
You can capture live footage into FCP via firewire, yes. I've done it many times. On the 'log & capture' settings you would have to manually start recording it by using the 'non-controllable' option. I believe this would work out for you.
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Have you any experience with the feature I was speaking about- the 'LIVE" aspect of FCP?
A buddy of mine mentioned he did a 2 camera shoot this way- direct to disk in his laptop, and had impressive results.

I've not tried it- nor even read up on it.

So- it's pretty easy for DeeVeeX to accomplish this with the gear specified in his/her list.
cool.
 
My guess is the original post was seeking to use a standard portable hard-drive like a fire-store - with no computer intermediary. In that case the simple answer is no - you cannot record directly to a hard-drive without the aid of a computer.

If I am wrong, and someone has figured a technique for doing this, please post it.
 
Yeah- there's nothing in the firmware on the 100's that'll 'see' the HD hanging out there.
Has to be some way to 'tell' the rig to start recording the data as it comes in.

On a digital still camera I use, I found it could record (DL) images to an HDMD via USB.
But, it's because the firmware found the USB connect and did it's function to grab the frames.

I still had to set the HDMD to 'record' though.
 
Thanks for all your posts. I kind of figured that I couldn't record straight to a hd. But I thought I'd ask anyways.

So I'll try the FCP live capture. It would be pretty sweet to capture to an hd though...

DeeVeeX
 
Technically, you will be recording to a hard drive, via FCP. You just need a laptop with a decent amount of space, of course depending on what you are recording.
 
One bonus is you won't have to DL the footage to disk- it's already there and ready to cut.
Still have to log your footage.
Depending upon your work flow, and scene selection (print) on location- it'll be faster and easier in the long run....

good luck!
 
I tried it out and it works! I just have to make sure that my external scratch disk isn't doing anything else.
 
I would, if you're recording a very important scene/event, throw a tape in the camera, just in case... Although I'm not sure if you can record to tape and a hard drive at the same time.
 
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