Firestore confusion

[Tim Miller]

I am borrowing a HVX and firestore from a friend to shoot my short. And according to him, to pull the footage off of the firestore I need to have Final Cut Pro (and/or another editing program) to put it on an external hard drive.

Unfortunately I know nothing about firestore and there is no manual (yes I can look it up online) but I thought maybe somebody could save me some time with a simple answer of how the laptop (in this case) reads the firestore and if its a matter of dragging the video clips to another external drive from the firestore.

thanks!

 

[mrWr0ng]

just plug the firestore in to your firewire port, then go into the firestore functions menu (i forget which one, it reads DD Drive) and tell it to mount as a hard drive, then pull the data off.

You don't need FCP to see the firestore or copy the data but if you're on a mac, you do need it to watch the HD video clips since you need the codec installed on the computer.

 

[Tim Miller]

Sweet deal, all I need to know was if I could pull it off or not, my friend has FCP...then I can wait till I have some cash to get it.

THANKS a lot!!!