Portable Hard Drive Tranfer Question

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Craig_Tarry

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Hi again, Do portable hard drives run off batteries, or do they draw their power from the HVX200 when you tranfer footage from the P2 card?

Thanks again- Craig
 
You need a power source for your portable hard drive since the 4-pin firewire connector does not carry power.

Ned Soltz
 
FS-100 with the high capacity battery will last for 3 hours in record mode. The standard battery will last 90 minutes.

Hope that helps,

Matt McEwen
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Matthew, when you download the FS-100 footage, can you use a laptop to transfer the MXF files directly from the FS-100 to an external firewire harddrive? Or do they need to be parked on the laptop's harddrive first, then moved to the external drive?
 
Matthew McEwen said:
FS-100 with the high capacity battery will last for 3 hours in record mode. The standard battery will last 90 minutes.

Hope that helps,

Matt McEwen
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Matt:

He was looking for a device to offload footage from a p2 card. Not a device to capture footage.
 
I have a cheap 2.5" portable 100 GB FW-USB HD and made its power supply with four 1.5 Volts rechargeable batteries, and only turn it on when I´m going to download cards... works fine, lastas about 10 downloads, teh batts are easy to change when drain.

:)
 
How about using my friends laptop as a power source and firwire direct through the laptop to an external hard drive? (I wouldn't want to dump my footage onto his internal hard drive)
 
shorelinedigital said:
Go check out weibetech's ComboGB I love it!

http://www.wiebetech.com/products/ComboGB.php

Tom
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Anyone else use this enclosure? I'm thinking I could dump P2 cards right to this bus powered hard drive, via laptop. (i'm assuming you can choose where to save the footage from the p2 cards)
It would be nice to be able to put footage from a P2 card onto a portable harddrive, instead of having to put it on the laptop's harddrive. (while still shooting with the camera)

Or would this be better fit?
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http://www.lacie.com/us/products/product.htm?pid=10718
It's $109 for a 80gb drive, but it's USB 2.0. Could I still go from the P2 card to the this harddrive via MBP laptop?
 
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erdiaz said:
I have a cheap 2.5" portable 100 GB FW-USB HD and made its power supply with four 1.5 Volts rechargeable batteries, and only turn it on when I´m going to download cards... works fine, lastas about 10 downloads, teh batts are easy to change when drain.

:)
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i have purchased a usb2go hd case with external power.
the hvx is switched in the usb device mode for the transfer from p2 to the hd.
the transfer speed is very slow, 32min. for 16gb.

is your hd case faster?

regards,
thomas
 
Is there any way to just dump a P2 to hard drive without an intermediate laptop? I have a firestore but would love to know that I could keep shooting on location if the firestore tanked - any suggestions? I have 3xlacie ruggeds (as pictured above)

thx.
 
Is there any way to just dump a P2 to hard drive without an intermediate laptop?
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Yes, but you need a Firewire HDD, formatted by the camera. Can't do it real time, you put the camera in "1394 Host Mode".
 
The procedure is detailed on page 84 of the manual. Also, I would let the camera format the drive to ensure it is set up correctly.
 
I use the orange Lacie 100mb @7200rpm firewire drive to download P2 cards to my PowerBook G4. It's buss powered when connected via Firewire 800. I then plug the same drive into my PowerMac G5 and edit away. The extra cost is worth it for the addtional capacity and the extra speed (7200) is best for transfering video and a simple transfer to the G5.
 
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