DVrack DVCproHD question

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FatBird19

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I'm about to get a MacBook Pro laptop and use DVrack when I boot it into windows.
Will an external 7200rpm harddrive be sufficient to record DVCproHD?
 
Are you using a ExpressCard/34 firewire card in windows?

Or are you using a single FW bus for both cam and the external HD?
 
I don't know about win MAc, but in my HP AMD laptop, a 7200 RPM USB Ext Drive is full enough to save DVCPro HD, and edit too in Premiere Pro 2.0
 
It is fast enough, but another thing is:
If you use the external drive in FAT32 mode (so it is also easy understandable by the Mac OS) you have the problem with 4 GIG limit, being the longest clip (+/- 17 minutes DVCPRO-HD). Using it in NTFS mode (the extern. drive) solves that problem but gives other problems working with the Mac OS.

And: is the memory problem (computers with 2 Gig memory onboard ) solved in DVrack 2.0?
 
xray said:
It is fast enough, but another thing is:
If you use the external drive in FAT32 mode (so it is also easy understandable by the Mac OS) you have the problem with 4 GIG limit, being the longest clip (+/- 17 minutes DVCPRO-HD). Using it in NTFS mode (the extern. drive) solves that problem but gives other problems working with the Mac OS.

And: is the memory problem (computers with 2 Gig memory onboard ) solved in DVrack 2.0?
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ok. Will it just stop recording at 4GB or will it just split the file?
 
David S. said:
Are you using a ExpressCard/34 firewire card in windows?

Or are you using a single FW bus for both cam and the external HD?
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oh yeah....that....

well I'd be using the Express card then


(i'm still in the thinking stages with this. It's for the DramaFest project)
 
xray said:
And: is the memory problem (computers with 2 Gig memory onboard ) solved in DVrack 2.0?
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That was fixed in the V2.1 patch that was released about two weeks ago.
 
FatBird19 said:
ok. Will it just stop recording at 4GB or will it just split the file?
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It will split the file if you use FAT32. Also, the Mac can read NTFS, so if you don't need to write to the drive from the Mac, then you can avoid splitting the file into 4GB chunks. Another option would be using MacDrive on the Windows side to enable read/write access to a Mac-formatted drive.
 
THoff said:
It will split the file if you use FAT32. Also, the Mac can read NTFS, so if you don't need to write to the drive from the Mac, then you can avoid splitting the file into 4GB chunks. Another option would be using MacDrive on the Windows side to enable read/write access to a Mac-formatted drive.
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What's MacDrive?


My biggest concern is whether a 7200rpm external drive will be able to handle the consistent bandwidth of DVCproHD through recording. Can anyone speak from personal experience?
 
I've recorded DVCProHD on a 5400RPM laptop drive using the beta version of DV Rack HD 2.0, and had no problems. That was not under Bootcamp, however, it was natively on a Toshiba P4M 1.5GHz.

MacDrive is a driver that enables Windows to read/write disks formatted using the Mac's native file systems.
 
Some people using bootcamp report a bunch of issues with MacDrive.

I reviewed in a different capacity a version ago, and didn't particularly care for it.
 
been capturing to a laptop drive as well for some test shots (DVCPRO 720p/etc) and everything was fine. Hooked up my 7200 external via USB2 and FW400 and it worked great as well.

I plan on getting a larger drive and will look for 7200rpm FW800
 
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