OT: hvx200 no direct hd video over firewire

BowmanDigital wrote on 4/28/2005, 2:40 AM
http://www.tomshardware.com/business/200504191/index.html

a little article regarding this camera, i was curious as to whether or not u could stream the hd footage straight to hdd, seems not... thought it was too good to be true.. i wonder if it can be done over usb2

EDIT: on the last page of the article, looks like panasonic are releasing a 60gb usb2 drive...

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jlafferty wrote on 4/28/2005, 7:53 AM
P2 cards slide into standard PCMCIA slots on notebooks/laptops, so you'll be able to drag-n-drop footage to a hard drive on a laptop and reinsert the card to continue shooting...
BarryGreen wrote on 4/28/2005, 12:09 PM
The Tom's Hardware Guide article is full of inaccuracies and flat-out wrong statements.

Regarding streaming: you absolutely will be able to stream the full resolution of all the codecs through the firewire port. If you have a DVCPRO-HD-aware type of capture device, such as FCP-HD or Avid Express HD, or the forthcoming DVCPRO-HD-compatible DV Rack, or the upcoming DVCPRO-HD-compatible FireStore, then yes you could absolutely stream directly to hard disk. Tom's guide just got it wrong.

Whether it can record live, directly to off-the-shelf hard disks, is still in development. No other camera can do that, so if this one can that would be unprecedented. But what you *can* do is record to the cards and then dub over to an off-the-shelf hard disk. So shoot to cards, and when there's a break in the action, plug in a $100 USB2 drive and have the camera automatically dub the footage over.

You don't need a laptop, or a specialized hard disk, to do that -- just plug it in and dub it.

They're working on the challenges presented by live capture, but frankly I don't expect to see it -- I expect that live capture to hard disk would require some intelligent electronics in the drive (like a FireStore).
apit34356 wrote on 4/28/2005, 12:21 PM
BarryGreen, then the camera 1394a ia actually an 1394b? 400 vs 800 is a big deal concerning pro-hd. is there an official technical document stating 1394b, this would be great if there is.
Guy Bruner wrote on 4/28/2005, 2:24 PM
There is really no need for the camera to support 800 Mbps 1394 since the max video stream is 100 Mbps. 1394a can easily handle 100 Mbps.
p@mast3rs wrote on 4/28/2005, 4:22 PM
"Regarding streaming: you absolutely will be able to stream the full resolution of all the codecs through the firewire port. If you have a DVCPRO-HD-aware type of capture device, such as FCP-HD or Avid Express HD, or the forthcoming DVCPRO-HD-compatible DV Rack, or the upcoming DVCPRO-HD-compatible FireStore, then yes you could absolutely stream directly to hard disk. Tom's guide just got it wrong."


I was under the impression that DVRack will only support HDV through a plugin, not DVCproHD. Its not the same file format is it? I think if it was the same then Vegas would be able to support now. However, if DVRack does support, that would rock hard.