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Firewire – 2 streams from one
I have a client who wants to record a lecture series. Each presentation will be 1.5 to 2 hrs long. They would like to record directly to hard drive, but also to back up to tape. Now I can take the FW out of the camera directly to the HD, and the Y/C & audio to an M25 deck, but has anyone been successful in splitting the FW stream to feed both a computer (MBP w/ FCP5.1.2) and the FW input to a deck?
I know there is machine control info going down the FW stream, would that cause problem?
I’m sure there is a wizard that has tried this. Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
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FW is a super chatty transfer protocol. I’ve tried spliting it out to a laptop and Firestore at the same time, can’t seem to get it to work. Too much data flowing through the pipe.
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You would need a firewire hub. Generally, not recommended; just too many things that can go wrong. Trust tape.
bogiesan
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A hub won’t work because Firewire is more like a network protocol and is very chatty. The hub will be flooded with chatter and data and send/recieve it from all connected devices. That’s the technical theory. BUT I am borrowing a FW hub today to test it out. I have a feeling I can make it work. Will report back.
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Take a look a this:
It might be what you’re looking for. (It’s still record to tape as a backup.)
-Russ
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https://www.kramerelectronics.com/indexes/item.asp?desc=365
Here is another one that works fine for this. I have one and it does it and more. Down load the manual for more info.“everything is broken”
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Here’a an active link
Oops, didn’t mean to cut in front of your post Russ, this is the same thing but I have one and can confirm it will do it. I just use it as a firewire wire router but you can split 1 source to 5 outs with this unit.
“everything is broken”
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Thanks for the info. I’ll check out the Kramer.
All the best.
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