Basic Newby Question

[Shane Ross]

You will have to load the P2 driver onto the laptop. But it is pretty straighforward. You lose the camera for shooting while you are doing this, but it works.

Shane

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[D. scott Dobbie]

Depending on the length of the takes, I transfer one card while still shooting out the other. I’ve had a day of 3-minute scenes with no down time (assuming there’s relighting/tweaking and the other “normal” breaks between takes).

[Shane Ross]

Scott…he can’t do that. As he stated:

“Can I just connect the camera to my mac book pro and copy the files across to an external hard drive”

He will be using the camera to transfer the cards to the laptop. The camera is now a P2 reader, and thus out of production.

Shane

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[D. scott Dobbie]

My mistake, Shane. When you said “load the P2 driver…” I was thinking “load the P2 card.”

Brain fart. Need to finish my latte…

-Scott

[Phil Summers]

Thanks Guys!

[Barry Green]

You can also do this without using the laptop at all; you can connect a firewire drive directly to the HVX200 and have it offload its cards to the external drive.

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[Incredulous13]

How can you offload directly from the camera to a hard drive?

Second question, how can you setup the camera to act as a P2 reader to go straight into a computer?

[Barry Green]

[incredulous13] “How can you offload directly from the camera to a hard drive?”

1394 Host mode.

[incredulous13] “Second question, how can you setup the camera to act as a P2 reader to go straight into a computer?”

For a Mac, use 1394 Device mode. For a Windows PC, use USB Device mode.

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