A cheap hard drive dv-recorder.

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Ingve

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Is there anyone who has considered if it is possible to turn
a firwire drive, like a Maxtor 200 gb drive, into a dv recorder like the quickstream dv recorder? Is it in any way possible
to cheat them to act like this, that is the one who gets their power solely from the firewire port?
Is this a stupid idea, a daydream, or could it be done? :-/

Ingve
 
Re: A cheap hard drive dv-recorder.

you need an intermediate hardware/software device to run the drive, and the program that operates the drive and the firewire connection interface.. basically you'd have to rebuild the quickstream. you could record directly to anotebook pc drive though. some are pretty small. and you can get external drives for it of course, bu the size/weight/durability issue it presents isnt comparable at all with the quickstream at all.
 
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Is there any software which can do the job in the drive? :-/
 
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I wonder if someone could write an iPod hack to do this? It is a nice and small package and has the hardware/software interface to the drive it's self. I mean, if people can get the iPod to run Linux why not record video direct from a camera's firewire port.

Just a thought
 
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200gb drives.. well the desktop ones, wont be powered over firewire. only laptop drives do.

And there was some college kids trying to hack the ipod to do just that, but last I heard the ipod didnt have the bandwidth in the circuits to handle the dv stream.
 
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Is there an online article about the specifics of connecting a laptop to the DVX100?

Understand in general terms a firewire cable is used for the connection, what additional software is required on the PC side?

Is it possible to capture to both tape and the laptop hard drive at the same time (instant offsite backup of the filmed materials) or is this an either or situation?
 
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[quote author=eyebiter link=board=Links;num=1079447699;start=0#5 date=04/20/04 at 06:18:20]
Understand in general terms a firewire cable is used for the connection, what additional software  is required on the PC side?  

Is it possible to capture to both tape and the laptop hard drive at the same time (instant offsite backup of the filmed materials) or is this an either or situation?[/quote]

I haven't tried it. But I captured video to the Mac using Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Express, Premiere, and iMovie. Based upon my experience, I would GUESS that with camcorder hooked up, and NLE open, hit "capture." Now normally in VCR mode, the NLE takes control of the camera. I guess the trick would be to try it in camera mode.
 
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[quote author=magicdavek link=board=Links;num=1079447699;start=0#6 date=04/20/04 at 19:14:57]I haven't tried it. But I captured video to the Mac using Final Cut Pro, Final Cut Express, Premiere, and iMovie. Based upon my experience, I would GUESS that with camcorder hooked up, and NLE open, hit "capture." [/quote]

You can definitely do just that -- but don't expect to be able to move very well. It does work if you're not really going anywhere (I shot a small school project this way in my apartment), and condenses log-and-capture into just capture-while-shooting, for quick, simple jobs.
 
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