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Recording direct to hard disc

cams4hire
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Sep 28, 2005, 5:32 PM

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Has anyone had any experience with the new video hard discs that allow you to record directly onto a hard drive, bypassing the tape?

According to the manufacturers, this saves so much time because you eliminate the capture phase of video editing, simply plugging the video hard disc into a firewire connection, and then start to edit.

I need info on the viability of such systems and have yet to find any objective reviews. This sounds like a tremendous time - and money - saver... no more need to buy tape at around twenty five or thirty bucks each for the DVCAM tapes!

glimmer
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Oct 2, 2005, 4:44 PM

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There are countless posts about this, so you might want to do a search. In any case, I use Nnovia drives and do not use tape anymore. The 100G drive holds about 7-1/2 hours of video and the battery lasts for about 6 hours. Partially dependent on system speed, transferring the files to the computer takes about 6-7 minutes per one hour of footage compared to one hour captured to one hour transferred. I own three of these and am probably getting a fourth by Nov/Dec.

Postal_Boy
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Oct 3, 2005, 3:10 PM

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Which model are you using? The A2D?
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glimmer
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Oct 3, 2005, 4:51 PM

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The A2D models allow you to use both analog and digital. The other models, which are a lot less, are 1394 only, which is what I use. There are also versions with A/B packs on them as well.

http:// www.nnovia.com/products.html