HVX200 Record to Harddrive W/O P2 Card?

[Ron Lindeboom]

[Barry Green] “Sure wish we could edit posts here!”

We have debated long and hard on the merits of adding an edit function to the board.

It looks as if we will be adding it shortly but with limits — as we do not want people to “stir the pot” and get things going, get proved wrong and then go back and edit their words. (Which would then make the replies look quite stupid and out of sync.)

So, it looks as if our edit function will only allow an user to modify their post for:

• The first 30 minutes, or
• Until someone replies to the post.

Once someone replies, even in the first 30 minutes, then the post is locked. We want people to think about what they say and in some sites, they allow editing functionality even after replies are made and it really makes the threads turn into rhetorical garbage.

So, stay tuned — the edit function is coming.

Ron Lindeboom
creativecow.net

[Graeme Nattress]

I think that kind of edit function would be excellent without introducing an 1984 type effect. I think that’s how the Apple forums work, if I remember rightly.

Graeme

– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects for FCP

[Barry Green]

[Guy Bruner] “So, we have a DVCPROHD camcorder that will record to P2 card, to external intelligent hard drive, or to a laptop/desktop in full 1080/60i (100 Mbps) or any mode below that. “

Or to a firewire-equipped DVCPRO-HD tape deck.

The hard disk thing is that to capture directly to the drive, without a card, it needs to be an intelligent firestore-type of device. But you can use a cheap off-the-shelf drive to dub the contents of the P2 card over. So if you had one card you could capture to the card, then between takes you could plug in a cheap drive and offload the card to it. You wouldn’t need a laptop or a special type of drive for that, so you can record all day to a cheap drive, you just apparently won’t be able to capture directly to that drive “live”. And yes, that is how the ipod would work as well — you could use it to copy off the contents of the P2 card.

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[Rennie Klymyk]

Worth noting: the AJ-HD1200A DVCPRO-HD tape deck does not record 1080P as the AG-HVX200 will. With optional record cards it records: DVCPRO HD-LP (optional) (1080/60i, 1080/59.94i, 1080/50i, 720/60P, 720/59.94P) and will play back: 1080/60i, 1080/59.94i, 1080/50i, 720/60P, 720/59.94P, 720/24P/60, 720/25p/60, 576/50i, 480/60p, 480/60i. It will record DVCPRO through firewire (a first). It will play back VariCam recorded tapes at 720/24P.

[Rennie Klymyk]

[Rennie] “It will record DVCPRO through firewire (a first).”

I meant to say “it will record DVCPRO-HD through firewire (a first)
Yes, the edit function would have saved this post!

[Barry Green]

Actually, the deck *will* record the 1080p signal. The way the 1080p is implemented, it’s carried within a 1080i stream, just like 24p and 30p are implemented on the DVX and XL2. So the firewire data stream coming out of the HVX will be a DVCPRO-HD-compliant 100-megabit 1080i data stream, with flags set for pulldown recognition. The AJ-HD1200A will be able to record it, and any DVCPRO-HD gear would be able to play back those tapes.

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