Need help, recording to hard drive. at DVinfo.net

Andres Restrepo · February 26th, 2009, 07:35 PM

I seem to not be able to record to an external hard drive, its a maxtor if anyone can help please lete me know.

Richard Hunter · February 28th, 2009, 02:07 AM

Hi Andres. I wouldn't expect that you can record to just any firewire hard drive direct from the camera. Normally you need a special drive that has a controller inside, to convert the video data into files that can be written to the drive. The controller also recognises the start/stop commands from the camera so that it doesn't just record all the time.

Richard

Peer Landa · February 28th, 2009, 11:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Andres Restrepo

I seem to not be able to record to an external hard drive, its a maxtor if anyone can help please lete me know.

I'm not exactly sure what you're trying to do, but maybe you can find some useful info from this thread: http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/canon-xl2...recording.html

-- peer

February 26th, 2009, 07:35 PM	#1
Andres Restrepo Tourist Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Miami Posts: 1	Need help, recording to hard drive. I seem to not be able to record to an external hard drive, its a maxtor if anyone can help please lete me know.

February 28th, 2009, 02:07 AM	#2
Richard Hunter Trustee Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Lipa City Batangas, Philippines Posts: 1,110	Hi Andres. I wouldn't expect that you can record to just any firewire hard drive direct from the camera. Normally you need a special drive that has a controller inside, to convert the video data into files that can be written to the drive. The controller also recognises the start/stop commands from the camera so that it doesn't just record all the time. Richard