New Focus Proxy H.264 Portable Video Recorder

I find it very interesting by the lack of responses. While everyone else is making higher-than-the-camera's-codec portable recorders it seems like these Focus drives a niche alternative to people that want to go straight from camera to online.

The best use I could see of this would be for producers to walk away with footage. They don't need Prores HQ to see the day's footage, so one of these recorders next to a Ki-Pro Mini, could take a load off the DIT / media wrangler's duties.
 
Cheers for posting this! :thumbsup: I'm actually watching this product with great interest; I'm heavily involved in a niche video industry for a major corporation that could take tremendous advantage of something like this. I've tried contacting a sales rep at Focus and no response so far.
 
well the nanoflash can also record at a very efficient bitrate and still make it ready for the web to edit. or you can shoot on a canon dslr and you'll already have it as h.264 ready for the web. but still this seems like an interesting device! I personally use turbo h.264 on a mac to quickly convert files to h.264
 
True, the NanoFlash has that flexibility; I'm curious what the price will be for the Focus FS-H70.

I could also really use a similar device that records MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 with user-definable bitrates. Anybody have any suggestions?
 
eddavid said:
or you can shoot on a canon dslr and you'll already have it as h.264 ready for the web.
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AVC Intro is also h.264, but neither are even CLOSE to being ready for the web. It looks like these recorders have settings between 100kbps - 5Mbps, which is a lot more reasonable as web-ready.
 
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