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HPX2000 Question
Was wondering if anyone has shot to their P2 Cards, and tried to back it up to a portable hard drive while on location. I have got a couple of hard drives on order that haven’t come in yet, but was wondering if anyone else was doing this. I have multiple producers that need footage rather quickly. I do have to work pretty regularly on multiple locations, drop off one producer and pick up the next, without the luxury of time to be able to dukmp footage into a suite for them. Any suggestions and/or tips?
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4 Replies
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Hi Scott:
The HPX2000 and 3000 both have the ability to transfer P2 content directly to any USB2.0 HDD. This USB2.0 Host mode completely controls the HDD, it formats the drive, and then does volume copies of the P2 card content to like sized partitions on the HDD. It’s pretty fast, >1GB/Min (faster than realtime for 1080i 59.94 AVC-I 100 / DVCPRO HD, double that speed for AVC-I 50). A useful feature if you don’t have power, a PC or much else in the field. Faster HDDs help speed up transfer speeds, but the cameras cannot bus power large platter / sized 7200rpm HDDs.
Hope it helps,
Steve Mahrer (Panasonic)
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We have used our new HPX2000 on a couple out of town, multi-day shoots so far. We are shooting interviews in 720p, so we are filling cards pretty quickly. So it’s important that we be able to offload the footage from the cards while still shooting. We have an AG-HPG10 card reader that we can connect directly to a firewire hard drive and use as a firewire host, that works, but I’ve got into the habit of taking my Macbook on the shoot and actually opening the files in FCP before I reformat the card. As a bonus, If the client wants to see a quick edit, you can throw something together on the spot.
The AG-HPG10 runs for a long time on one battery charge. The Macbook does well without power for 3 hours or more, and we have a 160gb LaCie firewire powered portable hard drive that we transfer the footage to. This system seems to be working for us right now, but we are only one month into our new camera, and things evolve.
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Thanks for the info. I am still waiting on the hard drives, so I’m trying to answer a question that I may just have to wait on! Patience, Grasshopper…
Thanks!
Scott
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Scott:
Not sure what you have on order, but I just go to Staples and buy whatever they have on sale that week. I like the Western Digital Passport pocket drives, 160GB for about $100…. Not bad for three hours of 1080p 24 “D-5” quality HD field archive eh?
Cheers!
Steve Mahrer (Panasonic)
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