Chris Baldwin
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Just so I get this straight once and for all…
DVCPro50 needs a 9MBps data write speed?
DVCProHD(100) needs a 14MBps data write speed?I’ve heard conflicting numbers… Where’s the official graph that shows this?
I’m also very interested to know where the prediction comes from that the 16 gig CF cards will be out in September? I was under the assumption that the Samsung 16 gig CF card that was scheduled to come out was not going to have fast enough write speeds.
So I guess that goes back to the original question. Can we provide some official documentation of the necessary data spec for P2 operation?
On a different note:
I still don’t think an external firewire hard drive conected to a PCMCIA card adapter would be a bad thing. I have some jobs that just want a long capture of multiple hour events from a steady stick shot. I might be able to sell these clients on a Hard Drive captured show so they don’t have to digitize or capture into their system.Any feedback as to if a PCMCIA firewire adapter to a robust 7200RPM firewire harddrive with greater than 14MBS write speed would or wounld not work?
Chris Baldwin
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Am I going backward here?
What about a PCMCIA card that acts as a converter to firewire?
https://www.psism.com/psifirewire.htm
Bottom line it seems possible for some sort of cheaper work around. Jan does make the point of the P2’s being very reliable and a one piece solution with no battery needed.
But until the P2’s are applicable to long capture filmmakers these might be the way to get the HVX200’s off the shelf…
My wish list would be for FireStore to figure this out and to make the battery life keep up with the camera and the storage capability. Probably more though so I could offload the content when finished recording and then charge up again.
Second would be for us to figure out a battery operated PCMCIA/harddrive solution oursleves.
Third would be a PCMCIA Adapter/Compact Flash Card approach.
And Fourth would be a AC powered or camera powered solution, although admittedly these are not so attractive.
Let’s keep refining a solution for a PCMCIA/Harddrive and then see what the power issues are.
Chris Baldwin
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The more I look into it the more it seems like Panasonic actually did their forecasting homework here and priced their P2’s competively.I think the Conpact flash cards will be out in larger size first but much more exspensively.
The one thing I don’t understand about this is why don’t the homemade p2 cards need some kind of firmware like the Firestore hard drive recorders?
What’s the difference? Aren’t they both just mounted hard drives? Why would the Firestore need software and not the P2 or homemade P2?
Chris Baldwin
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I completely agree about the P2 working for fictional shoots, but personally I’m going to be employing the camera to work on our nature documentaries which take me into jungles where electronics are endanger of failing due to moisture and the elements of field production. We need to be equiped with media that we can record without reloading process however long or short for at least 30 minutes and frankly an hour would be better.
Realistically I can see being able to transfer once a day at a base camp and it’d be nice to have 2 hours of recording time per day trip. So I’m not rooting against P2 or the HVX200 in fact I desparately want it to be practicle to our 4 month long Varicam DVCPro HD shoots over the next year.
The last writer had an interesting suggestion of the homemade P2 cards made from the PCMIA / CF cards. Does anyone know if that will work?
Chris Baldwin
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Wow, I actually have one of those PCMIA compact flash card adapters and was under the assumption that they wouldn’t work as a home made P2 card because they don’t have any intelligence to them. I wonder where I can read more about that option? To be honest its the first I’d heard of it besides my own musing.
So as far as going ahead and record onto P2’s and transfering daily to hard drive you saying go with https://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10551
So my question then would be what would the tranfer speed be of two full 8gig P2 cards onto a drive like this? And secondly if the FireStore product comes out could I transfer to it to a Bigger Disk and at what speed would that occur?
It’d be great not to have to buy these P2 cards at 8gig.
Chris Baldwin
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