A question about the new AG-HVX200…..

[Shane Ross]

From what I understand, the firewire connection is for the DV tape mechanism only…capturing only footage recorded on tape. The only way it captures DVCPRO HD is to the cards….that signal is not sent down the firewire cable.

And to get the footage off the cards, you can either use the built in USB 2.0 ports, or get a P2 card reader.

Shane Ross
Alokut Productions
http://www.lfhd.net

[Ed Dooley]

What?! I don’t think so. This from the Panasonic site:

>>>External recording to FOCUS FireStore FS-100 via IEEE 1394 streaming<<< >>>Host mode for transferring previously recorded content on P2 cards to an external hard drive via IEEE 1394<<< Ed [Shane Ross] “From what I understand, the firewire connection is for the DV tape mechanism only…capturing only footage recorded on tape. The only way it captures DVCPRO HD is to the cards….that signal is not sent down the firewire cable.

And to get the footage off the cards, you can either use the built in USB 2.0 ports, or get a P2 card reader.
“

[Shane Ross]

Well then I am mistaken. Glad to be so.

I just got my hands on the camera today, so I should keep quiet until I know more…

Shane Ross
Alokut Productions
http://www.lfhd.net

[Gary Adcock]

the x200 camera sends whatever video stream you capture out via FW –that is how you can record directly to a 1200a deck.
If set properly the Camera will control the start/ stop / pause functions of the 1200a

USB or FW can be used to transfer the Data from a card in the camera to your edit suite.

you cannot record to the camera over FW or USB the data is for playout only.

Data transfer from the cards is accomplished in Host mode, which requires you to got in the hte MCR/ VCR mode then hold down that button for 3 seconds to get to the Host mode.

Gary Adcock
Studio37
HD and Film Consultation
Chicago, IL USA

[Brian FitzGerald]

Dear Gary,
You said “you cannot record to the camera over FW or USB the data is for playout only.”

I have been told by another moderator in this forum that you CAN output from your NLE back to the camera P2 by Firewire.
I need to use this feature in order to bring commercials I produce to air.

My process would be to shoot on the HVX (specifically DVCPRO50 and hopefully soon DVCPRO HD), offload to my G5, edit, and then (hopefully) upload the finished :30 back to the camera (P2) so that I can take it to the studio where I make my BetaSP dubs for the TV Stations.

Right now I drop my stuff back onto DVCAM tapes and take them to the dub house where they have DVCAM decks and we do the transfer that way. I need to get this cleared up or the HVX200 is no good to me.

Who’s right???

On the other hand, if you have an alternate method for me to shuttle spots (that end up on BetaSP) I would appreciate knowing what it is.

Thanks.

[Barry Green]

I have streamed footage from one HVX to another, and it works fine.

I have also output HD footage via firewire from an Avid system into the HVX, and told the HVX to record it onto its cards — that worked fine too.

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[Mike Schrengohst]

Thats interesting, Gary Adcock was telling everyone at a Dallas Apple seminar that he could not do that. If that is true then you could edit a spot and then re-load onto the card and go to another post house that has an HD deck and record back to that if you need to???
Sounds like a good chapter for your HVX book.

[Toke]

So you can “print to p2” with avid, but not with FCP?

[Gary Adcock]

[Brian FitzGerald] “I have been told by another moderator in this forum that you CAN output from your NLE back to the camera P2 by Firewire.
I need to use this feature in order to bring commercials I produce to air.”

I have tried it in FCP and have not been able to too. There is no mention about recording back to the camera in anything other than analog in to the DV tape.( Manual; p89) There is not a provision to record to the P2 cards listed.
I trust Barry’s comments on the avid -however the avid adrenaline in texas was not able to talk to the camera in the manner that barry posted.

The Avids can also read the metadata on the cards better than FCP can do also.

Gary Adcock
Studio37
HD and Film Consultation
Chicago, IL USA

[Barry Green]

I haven’t tried it on the Mac. But I have been able to do it on the Avid on the PC. And yes, that means you can do what you suggest — print back to the card, take it into a facility and dub through analog to their decks.

Gary, did you turn off the thumbnail screen? You have to be in MCR mode, and turn the thumbnails off. Then you can see the firewire input playing on the LCD, and use the two record buttons to record that incoming stream.

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