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Shooting tape and Hard drive at same time
can someone point me in the direction of shooting too tape and hard drive at the same time?
I think there is a setting I am missing
Thank You
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Has anyone tried using a firwewire spliter and created file captures to two laptops? Also are people using HD monitor pro?
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You can’t. You need to choose one or the other.
What are you trying to accomplish? Perhaps there’s help in that area.
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To get the most attention to your question, you’ll want to start a new thread rather than post the question in someone else’s thread. That way you can type your own subject line to let the other viewers know what you want.
And as for your questions, are you asking if something is possible? Or are you comparing methods? Or are you looking for a solution to something? Just knowing someone used a product, without knowing if it was successful or how it was done, may not be too helpful.
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Having used tape for so long it’s the cheapest form of backup. I am concerned that should the PD2 fail or the hard drive (using hd monitor pro) that my project will be unrecoverable.
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Backups are definitely good, but at a little later stage in the game. Just like when shooting on tape, you don’t shoot to two reels at once – but you can make a copy of one after shooting.
And the tape drives in these cameras can’t record HD.
Shoot onto the P2 cards, then transfer the footage to a firewire drive. Or you can transfer to two such drives if you feel you need immediate protection. I don’t think a splitter is possible since you’re reading and writing data simultaneously, which is different from just hitting the play button on a deck and recording the image onto two devices. But, depending on how many P2 cards you have, you might not have to suffer any downtime since you can transfer one card while shooting out the others. Takes about 6 minutes to transfer an 8 GB P2 card. Twice as long for a 16GB card.
An inexpensive backup solution is the LaCie Quad Interface (USB, FW400, FW800, eSATA) 500 GB Firewire Drive. About $185 from MacConnection (or PC Connection).
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You can record to P2 and Firestore or computer at the same time.
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