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  1. DV firewire hard disk storage. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Cheap Tapeless DV Capture?

    There are a few direct to hard disk products available that exceed your time req. and allow you to directly edit the video you shot.

    I own a prod. company and buy most of my stuff from B & H photo out of NYC. Focus has one product at:
    http://www.focusinfo.com/products/firestore/fs-4.h tm

  2. Correcting a mistake and some info by gambit3 · · Score: 1 · on Cheap Tapeless DV Capture?

    1. LP does NOT decrease quality. Period. Look it up. There are reports that it DOES increase the possibilities of dropped frames but it does NOT decrease recording quality. The original poster is wrong.

    2. a) There are already ways of doing real-time storage... some not so easy. I just did it myself this July for a church conference, with a camcorder connected via firewire to a laptop, connected via firewire to an external drive. Not the best of solutions, and it pretty much eliminated mobility, but it gave me 3 hrs/night uninterrupted recording time.
        b) There already is a turn-key solution for this. It's called Firestore. It's a portable hard drive that captures real-time from a camera.
    http://www.focusinfo.com/products/firestore/fs-4.h tm

  3. Re:Solid state video recording by angle_slam · · Score: 1 · on Rugged Mini-DV Camcorder for the Road?
    I'm not if this is what you mean. But you might want to look at
  4. Re:1Gb of storage on SD? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative · on A Tapeless Digital Camcorder For Your Pocket

    Such as the FireStore? http://www.focusinfo.com/products/firestore/firest ore.htm

  5. Re:ADS Pyro DV by josh3736 · · Score: 2, Interesting · on 1.8" USB Portable Hard Drive
    We have a Videonics FireStore. You can hook a DV camera in one end and a FireWire drive to the other side.

    It seems really cool, but in pratice, it just sits in the studio collecting dust on top of a VCR.

    Tapes work for me. You can always get more of em for cheap and the time moving the DV off tape onto disk isn't all that bad since you can set it and go get something to eat while it does its thing.

  6. Re:Seems to me pretty stupid too by mbbac · · Score: 2, Informative · on Rings Digital Dailies Circled Globe via iPod

    Yes, there is the FireStore

  7. Re:Seems to me pretty stupid too by tvsjr · · Score: 1 · on Rings Digital Dailies Circled Globe via iPod

    They exist, but hold on to your wallet - every one I've seen is in the pro/broadcast category.

    Videonics Firestore(available in rack, portable and on-camera configurations for professional camcorders.)
    Sony DSR-DU1 (note the DU1 is intended for use with the DSR line of professional shoulder-mount camcorders.)

    There are others out there, but those are a couple of the common ones. Why are they so expensive? If you can afford broadcast cameras and broadcast glass, they aren't expensive.

  8. HDD recorders on the market... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Solid-State DV Camcorder

    The solid state is great because you can shake, rattle, or roll you camera and not worry about losing the fottage you're shooting. The HDD solution requires you to tether a special Firewire device to your camcorder to record to a HDD. "Why?" you ask? Because the something needs to understand the format of the drive and interface to the file system, so that the video can get properly recorded to the drive. Then, the drive can be disconnected from the camera and plugged into any arbitrary computer's 400 Mbps Firewire port and be identifyed as a drive.

    The problem here is that these devices are EXPENSIVE, since the market is relatively small. Here's an example comparison list, including prices.

    In additon, ADS Tech was supposed to have had a $500 version "Pyro DV Drive" available last year, but it's pretty much vaporware. Shame, as it would have been the cheapest one available.

    Most home users with their digital handycams are happy with using their DV tape, and don't think about needing a drive recored that costs twice what their camera costs.
    However, those of us in the professional or semi-professional arena really need it! I just finished a 2-day, 11-hour shoot in Vegas, and it would be nice to have such a device, rather than the 11 Mini-DV tapes that I will have to play back at normal playback speed through my camera in order to download them into my editing station. (For those of you who might suggest a mini-DV VTR, check out the prices again, they're alsmost as bad as the HDD recorders!)

    End Rant here: I'm really looking forward to inexpensive HDD recording, and future SS recording.

  9. You might want to look at these by ip_vjl · · Score: 1 · on Homebrewed Macro Keyboards?

    You may want to look at one of these things.
    They're primarily designed for digital video editing stations ... but you could use it for other things.

    They go for around $30 at Amazon.

    If you're using it with Windows, they have templates for common applications - but you can make your own.

    For other OSes, not sure what you'd need to do.