Recording direct to any ole' off-the-shelf Hard Drive???

ShannonRawls

ShannonRawls

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NoahK said:
Hi Folks-

Wow. What an exciting day. As I mentioned again this camera has completely allayed my fears about P2. If you just buy the camera and don't want P2- you'll be just fine. Any firewire or USB-2 drive that can handle the 100Mbit data rate will work. It does not need to be a Firestore or other DV specific drive. The engineers have reported using it with an Ipod for example. So there's nothing to fear here. If the worst we can complain about is looks- bring it on.
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OH

MY

GOODNESS!

If what you say turns out to be true....and I can simply get a teeny weeny 2.5" laptop 80gig hard drive in a slim FW/USB2.0 combo case and go from there.....

All Problems SOLVED!!

If it will bus power the drive, that's even better!! If not, it only requires 5 funky volts, I can strap the Camera Operator up to one of those! ANY modern day hard-drive will support 100MegaBITS per second, that ain't nuthin! and firewire is 4x's that speed and USB2.0 is almost 5x's that speed, so that's PERFECTO!!!

laptop 2.5" drives are up to 160gigs I think. But even still, 80 gigs are plenty for 1 day of shooting.

an 80 gig laptop drive will hold roughly 80 minutes of 1080p @ 100mbps DVCPROHD. If the Panasonica camera dumps the wasted frames, then its over 3 hours on a single 80gig drive of FULL RESOLUTION HD video with the Pany camera!

Unlike using a $1120 firestore solution....it's all about BYOD.

*smile* That's exactly what I would tell the executive producers... BRING YOUR OWN DRIVE!!! And best of all...no fumbling with the camera every 4 minutes pulling cards out the back of it between takes (that is a foreseeable nightmare!)

I just woke up and heading to first call. I will have my laptop with me to hear the reports. I pray this possible good news comes back as YES IT CAN.

- ShannonRawls.com
 
if its true, i have to say i told you so on this one. ...but the feature that im waiting to see if it has is the ability to record in increments to p2 .. and then actually transfer the data from the P2 to the HDD using the cameras internal files system. that way your sure to get a rock solid recording on P2, and then your just backing it up to the drive hanging on the cam in between takes or setups or whatever. ..no need for a laptop and not relying on HDD for initial recording. so you'd have P2 recording and HDD dumping all right in the camera. thats what im hoping it can do still. sounds like it can so im good to go with that.. i dont need to run for more than a couple minutes at a time.. and if i can dump to HDD in between shots im set.whoohooo! even still id also really like going directly to HDD
 
iamloser said:
but the feature that im waiting to see if it has is the ability to record in increments to p2 .. and then actually transfer the data from the P2 to the HDD using the cameras internal files system. that way your sure to get a rock solid recording on P2, and then your just backing it up to the drive hanging on the cam in between takes or setups or whatever. ..no need for a laptop and not relying on HDD for initial recording.
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Yes you can definitely do that.
 
..thats really .. really cool. :beer:

im still hanging onto the hope that itll go directly to HDD as well since Jan sort of eluded to it being able to do so by mentioning that the SPX800 could just hang a firewire drive on it and record for a long time.. now that we know for sure that the cam can control the drive directly .. i dont see any reason why it couldnt do it.. unless they think it will hurt P2 sales too much.. although i personally think it will only help in the long run. i think everyone would much rather go to p2 when possible.
 
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