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HVX200-MacBookPro-Is this real
Over the weekend (still waiting on delivery of P2 card and Barry’s book) I had a play date with our new HVX200 and MacBook Pro. Over the last couple of months I have read a bunch of don’ts on this forum, so I am having trouble feeling”safe” in what I accomplished over the week end.
I plugged our HVX200 (batteries/all auto/rec 1080) into a 15′ firewire cable then into our Mac BookPro (2.4 – 15′ 4g ram) then using FCP capture now or Veescopelive captured HD1080i to our USB2powered/attached 2.5 160g external drive…
Can you capture HD to an external 2.5″ 5400rpm usb powered /usb connected drive and feel safe about NO dropouts. Using either Veescope or FCP (FCP with abort on drop out on) I recorded video for hours with out any problems or drop out. Is this considered ‘within’ specs. Could I expect same performance on location with paying clientel?
Some numbers I remember is 6.5g left on the HD recorded 9 minutes of HD, is this about right with expectations?
These two pieces of gear make for an awsome little HD interview package. I was just recording in available light, everything on auto and was ammazed at the image and camera mic response. I should be able to cut my light kit in half.
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You can’t even feel comfortable capturing DV to that type of drive
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5400rpm is about the slowest drive you can find these days, and while some people get by with USB drives for video work, the manner in which the data is transferred is not well suited to streaming files such as video.
It sounds like it’s working for you so far, but I wouldn’t trust it.
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Not ideal but then again I routinely playback multiple streams off my internal drive with no dropped frames. Yes 5400 RPM is slow but it’s on the internal bus which is quite fast. Better off to get a nice Express Card to ESATA adapter and a tasty little e-SATA raid if you plan to do a lot of direct recording. That or a Firestore. Personally I prefer the direct recording method.
Noah
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Noah, Thanks for your comments, I like the little USB/firewire powered 2.5 drive because it has no fan noise. I didn’t think it would work without droped frames.. So I am quite surprised and was interested to see if any body else is using them.
Isn’t a Firestore based on a 2.5″ drive?
I do I lot of interviews, If others are having success with these drives it would be interesting to hear how. It seems that I was getting roughly a minute of 1080 recorded for every gig of data. So a 160 gig 2.5 drive gives me aprox 160 minutes not bad for a 150 dollar device that can be reused and fits in your shirt pocket. Put the drive with the Macbook Pro, VeescopeLive or FCP software and you have a Monitor and record device that fits in a brief case.
Being a “HVX newbie” I don’t quite understand the “Specs” of what the system can and can not do yet. I am just totaly amazed at what it was doing over the weekend.
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