Direct HVX200 to HARD DRIVE recording ?

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If you use P2 cards you can then offload them to a drive but you cannot record out the HVX to a hard drive without a laptop. (of course there's the FS-100 or Cineporter, but they're more than just hard drives)

#2
Not sure, I don't use a mac.

#3
Just make sure your hard drive is FAT32 and not NTFS, you shouldn't have any problems --must be quite a pc to outpace a Quad!!!--
 
The Firestore, Cineporter, and CitiDISK can be used to record directly from the HVX200. Only the Firestore is available.

As to a Macintosh laptop, Apple only sells the MacBookPro line. They start at $2K. You could get a used G4 on eBay, but what is the price you are looking at?

Not certain what you mean in your last inquiry.
 
You should know that if you use a firestore or a laptop, you'll end up being unable to record in native mode which means it will take more space and you'll have to use a program to extract the redundant frame if you want to under or over crank.

One solution that I'm considering is getting two 4 gig P2s and just offloading them to a laptop.
 
Redudant frames should be pulled out as soon as you capture into avid, fcp, premiere; which ever... They're just there so the camera records in 60p because that's all it can record if it doesn't use Native Mode. 12fps for example transfers to 5 identical frames for each frame.... so you have a different frame every 6th frame.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16,17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26,27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60
 
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The Truth:

Without P2

1) you cannot use direct harddrive to record from HVX.

2) You only can use direct to PC if and only if there is a software running to capture the output. Without a capturing Software, you cannot use a PC.

3) The capturing software on the PC is not free or cheap. You have to use a full blown NLE for it. If you have two HVX, then you need to PC each with its own COPY of the NLE software... JUST TO CAPTURE!.

4) Cineporter is not out yet. I do not know if the firestore for HVX is out. Never heard of citidisk.

I bought an HVX anyway. I am waiting until the 16GIG P2 cards are 500 each :)
 
LearningVideo said:
The Truth:

Without P2

1) you cannot use direct harddrive to record from HVX.

2) You only can use direct to PC if and only if there is a software running to capture the output. Without a capturing Software, you cannot use a PC.

3) The capturing software on the PC is not free or cheap. You have to use a full blown NLE for it. If you have two HVX, then you need to PC each with its own COPY of the NLE software... JUST TO CAPTURE!.

4) Cineporter is not out yet. I do not know if the firestore for HVX is out. Never heard of citidisk.

I bought an HVX anyway. I am waiting until the 16GIG P2 cards are 500 each :)
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3. Why would it need its own copy of the NLE software to capture?

4. Also, firestore is out..... you'd need the FS-100
http://www.focusenhancements.com/solutions/catalog.asp?id=150
It's a little more than the price of one 8GB P2 card and holds 100 GB.
 
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PunkMetalDrummer17 said:
3. Why would it need its own copy of the NLE software to capture?.
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Aren't you legally required to have two NLE license one for each PC? And even if you are not required, many of them come with security dongle and others...


PunkMetalDrummer17 said:
4. Also, firestore is out..... you'd need the FS-100
http://www.focusenhancements.com/solutions/catalog.asp?id=150
It's a little more than the price of one 8GB P2 card and holds 100 GB.
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cool.
 
If you dont want to use P2, and just want to complain about it, then don't buy the camera.

It's that simple. There are other options. But the biggest thing about the HVX IS P2 recording.
 
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Maybe. I don't think I'll use P2s at all once cineporter comes out though. That's why I'm so reluctant to get a P2 store.
 
yo can still get refurbished powerbook g4's on the apple site. and you cant use one computer to capture from two sources.
 
manglerBMX said:
yo can still get refurbished powerbook g4's on the apple site. and you cant use one computer to capture from two sources.
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We do it at my school all the time..... I'm not saying at the same time or anything.... but we'll jump from a mindv deck to p2 to a dvcpro deck... to a firestore... All you'd have to do is capture the video, switch the source and then continue. The only problems I have with anything is having two sources plugged in to the computer at one time...... but that's where a firehub and the plug and play feature comes into use.
 
PunkMetalDrummer17 said:
Why do you need two PCs though? (I don't own the camera myself....)
I thought you could just pull them into one avid.
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I wonder what would it take for one pc to capture DVCPRO-HD from two cameras at the same time?
 
LearningVideo said:
I wonder what would it take for one pc to capture DVCPRO-HD from two cameras at the same time?
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why would you want to capture at the same time... with two PCs you would have to pull the other camera into the other system.....
 
wait are you talking recording live from the camera into a computer? I'm talking about post.......



EDIT: Ahh..... I see, I'm just talking about post...... I didn't read where your first post was corresponding to the first post of the thread. And I misread your first post.... I didn't actually see the word direct.


Yeah for recording direct from camera to pc/mac you're right. Sorry... I'll let the thread get back on topic.
(It's just when I see PC i think desktop which is kind of a pain to go direct to.)
 
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