QuickStream DV special pricing for DVXuser.com.

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I'm drooling for one, two actually. I hope to get the 6hr unit soon, and hipefully the other in three months. These look to be excellent pieces of equipment.
 
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IS the Quickstream DV interchangeable with its hardisk.Meaning if I buy the 1.5 hour and decides to up my capacity all I have to do is replace the present hardisk with a higher one? thanks
 
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This was posted earlier in this thread by Jarred (if I follow you correctly).

"I put this question to MCE, and they said they dont recommend it, because there are very few aftermarket drives that relaibly can capture DV streams for a sustained period, remember, there isnt the buffer's etc that your laptop have. However, they didnt specifically state that it cant be done, but I imagine it would void your warranty. If you do attempt to do it, dont by a cheap drive."

While it's ultimately doable (as other posts suggest), it's not recommended.
 
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What about playback? Could I use one of these for client Demo's/Approvals? Does it only have firewire in/out?
Could it be used as a project back-up? Can it "record" or transfer files from a computer NLE ?
So many questions, I know but I am really intrigued by this little wonder. Definitely want one... wondering if I "must have" one.
Thanks for bringing this to the fore... I was looking at the Firestore earlier this evening... This looks Sooo much more like what we can use. The fire store didn't even have a drive.
Thanks Jarred ;D
 
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There is no playback on the quickstream, meaning you cant press a button and play back on your camera. You need to hook it up to your computer to see the footage.

I love this thing though, here is the latest mount I made, updated with rods:

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O.K Jarred, now your just showing off!That just ROCKS! I might have to have one! 8)
 
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did you have trouble finding the 15mm stainless, i know i did. unless i wanted to order 100 or more 12 ' lengths. :) thats pretty sweet though. what are you going to stick on there?
 
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its not stainless, its chromed aluminum, so its light. I actually found it at Home Depot.
 
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mount4.jpg



Now I just need to learn how to anodize.. paint sucks.

I tried to anodize something last week and almost blew up my house, I couldnt find battery acid so like a moron I tried to subsitute it with Hydrochloric Acid and **** hit the fan. That stuff eats through a 1/8th aluminum plate in 30 minutes and creates quite the sci-fi production doing it.. boiling spraying and smoking like a madman. being on the 12th floor of a hi-rise, I almost had a heart attack thinking it would blow up.
 
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Looks great Jarred, when can I put my order in....
 
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is the spacing (hieght ) right for either the cavision or chrosziel standard mattebox mount bridge?
 
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the rods are spaced at 60mm center to center, I dont know if the height is exact, but if it isnt I can simply just mill out the piece that goes from the rods to the mattebox.
 
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is it possible to mill the plate out, so that that front peice(the one with the quickstream) can be slid up  and down, and retightend for different heights? possibly somthing similar on the other version? cause if you could adjust height it would be even more kick butt.
 
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I was actually gonna do that but I changed it as I went along, if you can see there is a channel going horizontal that you can put bolts in to make left and right adjustments, Originally there would be 2 channels like that so you could go up and down. I decided left and right would be more important, as up and down adjustments can actually be done on some matteboxes. Anyways, I realized that as long as it matched the lens left and right I would never change it so I tapped bolts straight through. wont work on another camera, but is a mutch stronger system when stuff doesnt slide around.
 
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how long does it take you to make one?
 
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The longest time is tapping the holes, because I need to do that the old fashined by hand way. If I made a bunch of them it probally would be faster, and If I could find some sort of powered tapping machine it would be pretty quick.
 
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If you guys dont have the snap on battery for the quickstream, you can make your own adapter that uses the stock DVX batteries.. that way you can charge the quickstream on camera without needing to have different batteries or the AC adapter.

I used the cheap $10 charger and gutted it, giving me the snap on thing, with a direct connection to the Quickstream. Since the Quickstream has an awesome built in voltage regulator, it will take the 7.2volts from the battery without needing resistors etc.

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hey jarred, great idea! i'm getting ready for a theatrical shoot in april and was going to purchase two 3.5 hour batteries from mcetech for the quickstream. where did you get that charger at? what do you mean by, "gutted it?" thanks!
 
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I got the charger from the place in Asia where we get our batteries. I keep meaning to bring a bunch in to give to you guys that wanna do stuff like this..

Anyways, by gutting it I mean I took out the charging circuit so all that was left was the shell and the contact points.. the wind up cord I soldered directly to those contact points.
 
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