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Piotr Wozniacki June 27th, 2007 12:17 AM

XDCAM EX and HDD solution
 
Have been wondering: will a HDD such as the Sony DR60 be able to write XDCAM EX files if connected via firewire?

Or should I rather ask: what can be done to make it possible?

Alex Leith June 27th, 2007 01:07 AM

Technically the video is a data file, so there's no theoretical reason why an HDD solution wouldn't work.

However, the DR60 is setup to recognize HDV streams, not HDCAM HD files - so without a change in firmware it's not going to work.

An interesting thing that Panasonic have done with the HPX500 is given it an internal HD controller - so it can use regular firewire drives to dump footage from P2 cards.

The same solution for the XDCAM EX would be ideal, especially as you could probably dump two entire cards worth of footage to a fast hard drive in about 8 minutes!

Piotr Wozniacki June 27th, 2007 01:17 AM

Yeah... the "intelligence" required to that could either be implemented in the drive or the camera's firmware. Anyway, it'd be nice to have some extra recording media, apart from the SxS card - just in case!

Chris Medico June 27th, 2007 07:08 AM

If this becomes possible the EX will be my next camera for sure.

Chris


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