Nate Ford
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harry-
unless you’ve seen something i haven’t, there is no hard drive recorder yet. (but then, there’s no camera yet, either.)
it seems like there are strong indications (nothing official) that firestore, who make these drives for other cameras, are most likely going to be developing one. but it’s all vaporware at this point.well the other thing you could have been thinking of is the thing panny makes for dumping the p2 cards to hard drive. it’s essentially a portable, battery powered drive that can back up the cards. but it doesn’t connect to the camera. you just haul this thing around (i don’t think it’s cheap either,) and back up your p2’s with it when they fill up.
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if you go with the internal setup, you don’t need a raid controller. you can stripe 2 matching drives as a raid with the disk utility that is built into os x.
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the press release says that they will be trying to release a read/write device for under 1 million yen. based on the current exchange rate, that means that a read/writer will be somewhere below $9,141.60
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sorry- i meant to say “dvc pro hd”, not “hdcam.” sorry, jan. but yeah, 1 GB per minute at the highest bitrate.
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16 minutes at 1080i or 720/60p. little more than 1/2 hr at 720/24p. somewhere in your math you’re probably counting bits as bytes. the hdcam stuff is 100 megabits/sec, not 100 megabytes (which would be 8 times bigger.) i’m guessing that’s what you’re doing since you seem to be off by a factor of 8. when it’s abbreviated, little “b” = bits, big “B” = bytes.
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to clarify on your slo-mo question:
the camera is not “slowing down” the footage, it is shooting at a higher frame rate, just like how slo-mo is achieved on film with movie cameras. the reason the hvx200 will allow for high quality slo-mo is that it’ll shoot 60 fps (at 720p). any post-production means of creating slo-mo from dv footage involves taking the 30 frames (or 60 fields,) that were originally recorded and playing them back slowly. sometimes this involves creating interpolated frames to “fake” the effect of a higher frame rate, but nothing will ever work as well as actually recording more frames per second to begin with.