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It’s official: FireStore for HVX200
Focus Enhancements, Panasonic Expand FireStore to DVCPRO HD Format
Focus Enhancements has announced that its strategic alliance with Panasonic has advanced to a hardware development partnership that will focus on supporting DVCPRO 50 and DVCPRO HD.Focus Enhancements is developing an optimized version of its portable Direct to Edit (DTE) FireStore recorders for Panasonic’s DVCPRO, DVCPRO 50, and DVCPRO HD handheld camera-recorders. The portable FireStore recorders streamline the production process, enabling professional videographers to record SD and HD video streams via FireWire while in the field and then connect directly to a Mac/PC notebook or desktop to edit content directly from the FireStore.
“We believe that our AG-HVX200 DVCPRO HD P2 handheld camera-recorder will be the most versatile solution for everything from high-level production of episodic television to commercials, video-based cinema, and movies, as well as news gathering,” said John Baisley, president of Panasonic Broadcast U.S. “We have selected the Focus FireStore Direct To Edit solution as a way of offering economical long-duration DVCPRO, DVCPRO 50, or DVCPRO HD recording to the event production market. The FireStore solution, like our P2 card solid-state memory solution, speeds up the production workflow by eliminating time wasted digitizing footage.”
“It is exciting to further expand our partnership with Panasonic and to extend our FireStore DTE platform to include a portable DVCPRO HD variant capable of 100Mbps video bit rate,” said David O’Kelly, vice president of business development of Focus Enhancements. “Working closely with Panasonic, we plan to offer significant media cost savings to DVCPRO HD customers requiring long-duration HD acquisition.”
Focus Enhancements joined Panasonic as a P2 Partner in March after developing a version of its industry leading file conversion software, FireStore DV File Converter Pro, exclusively for Panasonic Broadcast to support quick and easy MXF file format exchange with popular DV editing applications.
The FireStore DTE recorder for HVX200 is expected to be available in March 2006 and the price will be less than $2,000.
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so where’s the link to the chart that lays out the record time at the various resolutions?
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Did I miss something, I didn’t see a drive size. Of course there is no chart if there isn’t a size listed. The chart is pretty simple though, the data rate(unless I misunderstand 100MBps) For DVCPROHD 1080 and DVCPROHD 720 is 12.5Mbps unless you record 720 24p then the data rate is only 5 Mbps. Roughly, 1 minute = 1 Gig unless it is 720 24p then you could get 2.5 minutes per gig.
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On the Focus website (https://www.focusinfo.com/products/firestore/fs-4.htm), it still says that HD is “coming soon”. OTOH, so is the HVX200.
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[Steve Freebairn] “Did I miss something, I didn’t see a drive size.”
100 gigabytes.
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It must be a big technical challenge to make a firestore accept data as fast as the 200 wants to deliver it. Otherwise, you would think they would burn the midnight oil and get the darn drive out with the camera, rather than a few months AFTER that. That way, they’d get some market dominance before everybody else got a similar products out. Maybe new bus architecture is the hang up. — amadon
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I wonder if it will record MXF? I sure hope so.
-trane
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