Hi all,
I recently purchased an HVX200 along with two 8Gb P2 cards. Since I can't afford more P2 cards or a Firestore at the moment, and also don't have my Macbook/Laptop at present, I was looking to buy a portable hard drive so I could offload footage in the field, format the cards and hereby shoot for more than 16 minutes (@1080) in a days shoot.
After reading up a bit on portable hard drives and issues, I confused myself more, so I was hoping that you good people here could help me out with some queries - bearing in mind that I don't have a laptop or workflow alternative for the shoot.
1 - It seems that with a portable hard drive, the power must be supplied from a source other than the 1394 bus (am I correct?). Does this mean that the following would be no good for direct offloading of P2 files if I didn't have a laptop to power it:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Western-Digital-Passport-Portable-Firewire/dp/B0038MU7V4
2 - Is this the case with USB portable hard drives also - will these work with the HVX without a laptop or source of external power? Can you even use USB hard drives to offload footage directly?
3 - It states in the user manual that the HVX will automatically format any hard drive connected to it. If I offloaded both my P2 cards (16Gb total) to a portable hard drive, formatted the cards, shot another 16 minutes and repeated the offloading. Would this format the original 16 minutes on the hard drive or can I repeat this process as many times as possible (i.e. offload multiple times)?
I hope this makes sense, and I apologize if I'm asking simple questions. I have only ever worked with a Firestore or captured direct to FCP whilst still studying and am totally new to this. Any help would be greatly appreciated. If you need any clarification on the above, please let me know.
Thanks again for any help,
Scott
I recently purchased an HVX200 along with two 8Gb P2 cards. Since I can't afford more P2 cards or a Firestore at the moment, and also don't have my Macbook/Laptop at present, I was looking to buy a portable hard drive so I could offload footage in the field, format the cards and hereby shoot for more than 16 minutes (@1080) in a days shoot.
After reading up a bit on portable hard drives and issues, I confused myself more, so I was hoping that you good people here could help me out with some queries - bearing in mind that I don't have a laptop or workflow alternative for the shoot.
1 - It seems that with a portable hard drive, the power must be supplied from a source other than the 1394 bus (am I correct?). Does this mean that the following would be no good for direct offloading of P2 files if I didn't have a laptop to power it:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Western-Digital-Passport-Portable-Firewire/dp/B0038MU7V4
2 - Is this the case with USB portable hard drives also - will these work with the HVX without a laptop or source of external power? Can you even use USB hard drives to offload footage directly?
3 - It states in the user manual that the HVX will automatically format any hard drive connected to it. If I offloaded both my P2 cards (16Gb total) to a portable hard drive, formatted the cards, shot another 16 minutes and repeated the offloading. Would this format the original 16 minutes on the hard drive or can I repeat this process as many times as possible (i.e. offload multiple times)?
I hope this makes sense, and I apologize if I'm asking simple questions. I have only ever worked with a Firestore or captured direct to FCP whilst still studying and am totally new to this. Any help would be greatly appreciated. If you need any clarification on the above, please let me know.
Thanks again for any help,
Scott