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Connecting with a Hard Drive
Hi,
I have a Western Digital External Hard Drive and was just wondering if there was any way for me to connect it to the HVX while filming? I know I can just dump the P2 card files to it through a laptop but I don’t have the money yet for the laptop. Can I just dump the files, or capture right to the hardrive? Is it able to handle 1080? Thanks
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Sorry, can’t do that. You have to have specially designed drives to do this, like the Firestore or Citidisk.
Shane
Littlefrog Post
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You’re half right Shane. He asked if he could dump the files OR capture directly to the hard drive. You cannot record to a normal hard drive, but you can set the camera to 1394 host mode and transfer files to an external drive when you’re not recording.
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Or run the 1394 thru a laptop running capture software. That’s REALLY handy for long talking heads, etc. I put my HPX into loop record mode, and when there’s a chance to stop recording on the laptop, check the files on disc. *If* something happened to the capture, I’d have a chance to get data off cards. So the cards are a backup to the capture. (Well, this was before I got the 4 16GBs.)
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If it’s a firewire drive with a power supply then you’re in business… connect the drive first, then power on the camera and switch to 1394 Host mode and you can dump P2 cards with verify. The drive needs to be formatted by the camera first, and the camera will create a partition equal to the capacity of each card.
On my camera (HPX500) with 16GB cards I’d say it takes around 25 minutes each, although I could be wrong. Never had to do it mid-shoot. =P
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Video Photographer / Avid Editor / Final Cut Neophyte -
Only tried cam -> HDD once, and it made a single 4GB partition on a 200GB drive. If i’d offloaded another card, I assume it would’ve made a 2nd 4GB partition? Inquiring minds want to know (who didn’t have the patience to do it themselves).
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[Bob Woodhead] “Only tried cam -> HDD once, and it made a single 4GB partition on a 200GB drive. If i’d offloaded another card, I assume it would’ve made a 2nd 4GB partition? Inquiring minds want to know (who didn’t have the patience to do it themselves).”
Yup, exactly; an 8GB partition if you were using an 8GB card and so on. The only real sucko part is that every partition is labeled NO_NAME, and with a large number of P2 dumps it can get awful confusing once you mount the drive.
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Video Photographer / Avid Editor / Final Cut Neophyte -
Ooo, am I on the brink of good news here? I just posted this.
So, I can connect any blank hard drive, and the camera will add a new partition for each card? Does it record directly to the drive or is this a copy utility of sorts?
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