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Activity Forums Panasonic Cameras HDX900 and Firestore 23.98 versus 59.94

  • Noah Kadner

    April 24, 2008 at 3:03 am

    Not sure but in general it takes the Firewire output which is always 59.94.

    Noah

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  • Nick Higgins

    April 24, 2008 at 2:25 pm

    Cheers for that. Thats what I was starting to conclude. It would certainly be better if the Firestore could do what an NLE does and strip that signal back down to 23.98 and thereby save you significantly on the file size but I guess it cant (yet!), but we live in hope.

    Shooting straight to a hard-drive with a tape back up is a pretty sweet way to go; its super efficient and doesnt feel like you are taking too much risk. Its a shame that the Firestiore is extra-ordinarily noisy and a pain in the arse to operate but being able to bypass the digitising from tape phase is a winner for sure.

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  • Noah Kadner

    April 24, 2008 at 3:19 pm

    Yep- I would think it would be possible though would probably require much more processing power and intelligence- i.e. expense on the part of the Firestore to strip out the 24p properly. Plus if it messed up you’d be really out of luck. 🙂

    -Noah

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  • Brooks Moore

    April 25, 2008 at 4:29 pm

    The Firestore since V3 software will strip the extra frames as long as you set the Firestore and camera timecode properly.
    Thanks

  • Jeff Regan

    April 26, 2008 at 2:33 pm

    FS-100 will record in 24PN (Native) mode if the HDX900 is set up
    properly. It must be in Free Run for 24PN, although in 30PN it
    can be used in Record Run.

    I just finished a six day shoot using two FS-100’s in 720/24PN
    mode with two 900’s recording in Quicktime Native. It works
    great, ingest is fast and easy. The editor was cutting sequences on set after ingesting a few times per day.

    The great thing about 24PN is being able to record over 6 hours
    on a 160Gb FS-100, yielding about two and a half minutes per
    Gig vs one minute per Gig in 720/60p.

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