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New P2 Camcorder Question
After we save DVC Pro HD to P2 card, can we transfer via firewire into the editor or not?
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Yes, you could transfer via firewire or via USB2.
Or, you could just pull the card out of the camera and plug it into a PCMCIA/CardBus 32 slot. That way you could edit directly from the card, without having to transfer it to your computer.
Technically you could edit directly from the card even while it’s still in the camera; if you plug the camera into the computer, then the camera will show up on your desktop as an external removable hard disk, and the contents of that “hard disk” will be whatever’s on your cards. So you don’t actually have to transfer to the computer at all if you don’t want — you can edit straight from the cards while they’re still in the camera.
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barry, i don’t know if offloading and transfer is different, but in dvxuser you mentioned we no longer can offload to usb but to firewire only. confused here..thanks!
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Two different things.
“transferring”, as I was referring to here, was the concept of plugging the computer into the camera. You can do that (AFAIK) with either firewire or USB2; either way you could then transfer the contents of the P2 card onto your computer (or edit directly from the cards in the camera).
As far as “offloading” goes — that’s the term we’ve been using to describe the process where you just plug in any old off-the-shelf external hard disk and the camera can automatically offload the contents of its P2 cards onto the external drive. i.e., no computer necessary.
In the very first announcement back at the Apple event at NAB, they announced firewire with AV/C (streaming) and SBP2 (file transfer) protocols. Initially we thought that meant that you could use it to offload files to a firewire drive. Apparently there was an effort made to make the file offloading work through USB2 drives, but the most recent info that we have is that it’s actually going to work the way they originally announced — streaming and offloading are both handled by the firewire port. You can plug firewire drives in and the camera can control them and offload the card contents to the drive. Or you can plug in an “intelligent” drive (like a FireStore) and stream directly to it.
USB2 is used for connecting to the computer, but direct control of USB2 drives to offload card contents is not going to happen. Instead you get that same functionality if you use a firewire drive.
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The offloading feature is wonderful (amazing frankly) and I don’t mean to take issue with it. I just need a clarification for mobile/backcountry use. The photos show what appears to me as a 4-pin 1394 connection so I assume no power. I haven’t seen mention as to the pin/power configuration of the camera. I assume therefore that the connected drive must have its own power source and cannot–as in the case of a 6-pin laptop connection–pull power from the host.
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