External hard drive with HVX200?

[bajazz]

Hi,

since the P2 card is so ridiculously expensive, is it possible to hook up an external hard drive directly in the usb2/firewire port and use it as a P2 card to shoot HD?

 

[Dick Campbell]

Yes - but it has to be a separately powered Firewire drive, and it has to be formatted by the camera. Look up 1394 HOST mode in the manual.

There are other options as well, like using a laptop to do a live capture if you have the right software.

 

[bajazz]

I'm sorry, my english not so good, yes.

By "separately powered Firewire drive", do you mean that it has to be powered from a power plug? I can not use a portable hard drive like this one?

http://accessories.euro.dell.com/sn...1168606&cs=ukbsdt1&dgc=SS&cid=5186&lid=121454

Thanks Dick!

 

[Jim Carswell]

No that drive won't work. The hard drive has to be either self powered by a battery or plugged into a wall socket.
Jim