HVX 200 Workflow Clarification with p2 cards ?

[The Machinist]

What if you already have stuff on the drive you want to keep (don't want to format) can you just add new stuff to the drive without removing the old?

Judging from Barry's post. If you have to format the hard drive to function with the HVX then i imagine it would erase the old stuff. If there is a way around this then I'm sure someone on the board can tell you. But Hard drives are fairly cheap these days. You can pick up a 300GB Seagate drive for around $200 online. It would probably be a wise investment to get a hard drive specifically for use with the HVX.

 

[Jaime Valles]

...and you can tell it to do so with or without verify mode (with verify, it'll copy the card contents over, and then it'll read the data back and compare it to the card to make sure that it absolutely successfully copied over).

Wow, it can verify that?! Awesome! So the P2 card never leaves the camera, and one can use a regular firewire off-the-shelf drive and edit directly from that drive. Insane. I'm so happy I won't have to use tape anymore, ever!!!! EVER!!!!!

DIE, TAPE, DIE FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS GOOD IN THIS WORLD!!!!!

 

[OliverM]

I checked some (standard) PC shops in the Netherlands and a HDD with IEEE connection is not available. Does anyone living in The Netherlands knows where to buy this stuff. Which one suites best (brand, raid ........, size, speed etc.). Any price indication ????? :huh:

Dag Cees,
Ik zit in België, dus normaal zou dat wel moeten overeenkomen. Kijk eens naar het merk Lacie. Kwalitatief altijd goed, wij gebruiken ze veel voor video.

 

[Barry_Green]

What if you already have stuff on the drive you want to keep (don't want to format) can you just add new stuff to the drive without removing the old?

I don't know if the final version will act differently than the prerelease version, but on the prerelease version it could only see a hard disk after it had been "formatted" for use with the camera. So I'd say: don't use a drive that already has stuff on it. Copy that stuff somewhere else. Use dedicated for-the-HVX drives.

 

[Brian Petersen]

I don't know if the final version will act differently than the prerelease version, but on the prerelease version it could only see a hard disk after it had been "formatted" for use with the camera.

So does this mean we can't uses an iPod to dump footage to? I assume you can't "format" an iPod without ruining it's iPod capabilities.

 

[Barry_Green]

Interesting question. I don't have an ipod to test with. The time I did a "format" on a drive, it took about three seconds (IIRC) so it wasn't like a real low-level format -- maybe it just does something about creating directory structures or something. I'm not sure.

 

[bosindy]

So I'd say: don't use a drive that already has stuff on it. Copy that stuff somewhere else. Use dedicated for-the-HVX drives.[/QUOTE]

thanks for the info. this may be an obvious question as to this need for formatting, but does this mean that you can't dump to your laptops's internal hard drive or record directly to it via fire wire(7200 rpm), but need a clean external drive?

 

[Matt Gottshalk]

I bet a G-raid would SCREAM for trtansfers! moohahahaha!

 

[izoneguy]

thanks for the info. this may be an obvious question as to this need for formatting, but does this mean that you can't dump to your laptops's internal hard drive or record directly to it via fire wire(7200 rpm), but need a clean external drive?

That is also a good question. Does Panasonic publish a best practice with NLE's?

 

[Barry_Green]

thanks for the info. this may be an obvious question as to this need for formatting, but does this mean that you can't dump to your laptops's internal hard drive or record directly to it via fire wire(7200 rpm), but need a clean external drive?

That's not how you'd do it. With a laptop you'd approach it from one of two different ways:

1) you'd connect the camera to the laptop through firewire (mac) or USB (PC), and the camera pops up as a pair of external hard disks on your desktop. You then use explorer/finder to copy the contents of the cards to your hard disk.

or

2) you'd just pull the cards out of the camera and put 'em in the laptop's cardbus slot. Again, they will pop up on the desktop as an external hard disk, and you copy the contents over.

As for recording directly via firewire, that's certainly possible, so long as you're running a capture application on the laptop that understands DV100 data.