Firestore or Cineporter?

Regarding klhudson's comments about trouble getting FCP to remove the redundant frames, make sure that you have the UB Mode on the HVX200 set to FRM RATE. That may be the problem.

Matt
 
The 3.0 firmware upgrade will be $39 if I'm not mistaken. It will introduce a lot of really powerful features. All firmware updates have been free so far, and probably will be free after that, I assume. I don't have a list of all the features, I only know about the couple I was told about: Auto-detect the camera settings and match it for recoding automatically, QuickTime file formating on the fly.
 
Here's a tutorial that covers the whole FCP 5.1.2 Panasonic P2 import window stuff. It's a freebie I slapped together really fast and compressed the heck out of. It's an 8.8MB download. I'll work on a better compression job when I have time. It's actually the tail end of the comprehensive video tutorial I'm doing about the FS-100 and all it's features. Enjoy!
-Ben Balser

http://www.wolfdigitalmedia.net/tutorials/fs100fcp.mov
 
FS-100 can mount as p2 card with Final Cut Pro 5.1.2.

FS-100 can mount as p2 card with Final Cut Pro 5.1.2.

Some may find this helpful. If you open the p2 logging window in Final Cut Pro before you mount the FS-100, Final Cut see's the drive as a p2 card when you mount it. In a pinch it helps you to move a little faster by cutting out the extra step of searching for the drive.
Cucillo
 
We recently started working with the HVX and have been loving every minute of it except for the Firestore. It has crashed on us several times and lost very important pieces of footage. Some quotes that we will never get back. Is this a common occurance with this device because it seems to do it without fail. We are really looking forward to the Cineporter which seems like it should be a far more stable and functional device. Is this assumption correct. If it isn't then 16GB cards can't get here fast enough because we decided as a company to never use the Firestore again.
 
Sorry to hear you got a bad unit. So you didn't let Focus address the issue? Mine and several others I'm aware of have been pretty flawless. But every product has a few bad units the slip through.

If the CinePorter will be a hard drive, just like the FireStore, one must assume it will have the same vulnerabilities.

Resonably priced 16Gig cards would be great. But, until then, use what works for you.
 
Well the unit was a rental so we could not have focus take care of it. But the whole experience kind of turned us off from the device.
 
Well the unit was a rental
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Probably been droped a few times. I've never had any problems with mine. Might be the fact that I treat it like a newborn baby. I'm getting interviewed next week from a company that does PR for Ifocus about my FS-100, if anyone has any complaints I could let them know.
Patrick
 
Ah, a rental, so you don't know if it had the latest firmware update, who abused it before you. Yeah, the one draw back of rental, you have no idea what the thing's history is. But when you need something, good thing they're there.
 
The problem would be that all of a sudden we would just have nothing on display but the timecode and you couldn't stop the record or pause it nothing you pushed on the front would respond. Ultimately you'd have to power it down to get it operating correctly again. Thus all of the footage before that happened would dissapear. And we would get a lot of "Incomplete" and "Spanned" clips when we would import the footage from the FS-100. Is that a common occurance?
 
Actually, it should be 2.0.1.05, which is the latest.

What display, the HVX or the Firestore? The buttons on the Firestore wouldn't respond? That's a broken unit, should never have been let out by the rental house. Sure you had the camera and Firestore configured properly?

Sounds like the rental house is renting out a bad unit, rather than having it repaired or replaced. You should call them and tell them it is a defective unit. What rental house was it? You may want to let Focus know about it. I know they don't want bad units getting rented out.
 
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You may want to let Focus know about it. I know they don't want bad units getting rented out.
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I'm sure neither does the rental house -- they have no desire to tick off their customers and have to refund rental fees. They only make money when their stuff works and customers come back.

Many people don't take care of things that aren't their own, and won't fess up to breaking stuff when they return it. That's why I try to check that everything I rent is in working order when I pick it up.
 
BenB said:
Here's a tutorial that covers the whole FCP 5.1.2 Panasonic P2 import window stuff. It's a freebie I slapped together really fast and compressed the heck out of. It's an 8.8MB download. I'll work on a better compression job when I have time. It's actually the tail end of the comprehensive video tutorial I'm doing about the FS-100 and all it's features. Enjoy!
-Ben Balser

http://www.wolfdigitalmedia.net/tutorials/fs100fcp.mov
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Ben,

Is the full tutorial going to be for sale or for free? Any target release dates?
 
Part 1 will be for sale, part 2 is a freebie, and will be updated when part 1 is released. How it gets released is in negotiations right now. I am working to have it released the same day as the 3.0 firmware upgrade, since it's based on that feature set of the FS-100.
 
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And being a huge P2 card, you're stuck with things that the HVX can't do on it's own, that the FS-100 allows it to do, such as snap shots and time lapes in any format in any time lenght setting.
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Sorry, but here I see another words: Yes, the FS-100 can do time lapse recording, but in DV (Standard definition) recording mode only. It does not have an option for time lapse when doing high definition recording. (http://www.focusinfo.com/support/faq_topics.asp#answers)
 
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Slava, I do it daily, it does Tilmelapse in any mode the HVX can feed it. The FS-100 has it's own internal Time Lapse mode. The HVX just feeds the video, it never goes into record mode.

The link you provide is wrong. There's a bit of info there that needs to be corrected that I've brought to the attention of Focus.

In fact, I posted some time ago an DVCPRO-HD, 1080i60, 1 frame per second time lapse of mowing my lawn. I have the original QT clip to prove it.

So, even though Focus has that posted, I can assure you that I've done quite a bit of Time Lapse recording in HD mode on the FS-100. Let me reffer you to these two other threads that prove my point.

http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?t=75100

http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?t=73734
 
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