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HVX200 Field Hard Drive
I am fully aware of the Panasonic P2 Store. I am also aware of the to-be-released FS-100 from Focus.
My question for Jan or anyone is if an iPod could be used as an after-the-fact field transport drive for the footage? For example, could I offload acquired footage from the HVX200 to an iPod? Or, could I offload footage from the P2 Store to an iPod?
The whole idea here is to have additional field storage options (before the forthcoming FS-100) without having to lug a laptop around. The price of the P2 Store is too steep for me to buy more than one.
Thank you,
Chris Elley
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Hi,
An older iPod with 1394 could be used to off load P2 cards from the camera, but it will be likely slower than real time. And no you could not use that to off load the P2 store. There is specific sofware in the HVX that allows for this to happen. The P2 store does not have that.
Best,
Jan
Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, DVCPRO, DVCPRO50, AG-DVX100
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I for one would be very uneasy in offloading my valuable rushes onto a store which is not very robust and unlikely to fail. The P2 store is built in a similar manner to the Panasonic Toughbook laptops and I believe has 2 mirrored hard drives.
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Hi Jan,
Does that mean you could offload onto other firewire drives such as lacie mobile drive?
https://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10655
I wondered since it is “bus-powered” via the firewire connection would that mean the HVX200 would be powering it and basically acting as a computer to control the download? If so that sounds like a VERY COOL camera!
Paul
Producer
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Bus power is for usb only and unfortunately it seems to be that handling usb-disks didn’t fit into hvx’s program memory.
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[Paul Shard] “I wondered since it is “bus-powered” via the firewire connection would that mean the HVX200 would be powering it and basically acting as a computer to control the download? If so that sounds like a VERY COOL camera!”
The HVX doesn’t supply any bus power, so you’d have to supply power some other way. However, the rest of what you say is true — the HVX does act as a computer to control the download, it can format a drive and write a card’s contents to the drive and also verify the card’s contents to make sure that they were accurately copied to the drive.
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