Thanks Dan & Alister – The idea of using the extra HDV tally light in view finder came to mind because prior to purchasing the Nano, I had nNovia QC Deck which recorded in DV25 or HDV format, and it used the HDV tally which was very good.

I would be interested to know how others are mounting the Nano to the EX3. In may case the front accessory shoe is permanently taken by my 144 Led light. The rear accessory shoe is obscured by the Vlock battery mount.

I must admit like BOB I was unaware the you had a range of accessories. I only found out when I enquired about wiring options for the 10 pin Hirose. By that time I had already purchase the connectors and employed a technician do the wiring. I had things ordered so I could get the Nano tested and into service ASAP.

I have just had two SanDisk Extreme IV 16gb cards land on my desk an now I am out to see what this unit will do?

Dear Lance,

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"Hot Swapping" of CF cards
 

Dan,

I was about to post this in the thread about CF cards, but since it is more a wish list item, I decided to revive this thread. :-)

Concerning formatting of cards in the nano (and XDR, I assume)...

I know you guys are working on "hot swapping" for an upcoming update. If someone is to use that feature, I assume all cards would have to be formatted (in the nano) before being inserted during the hot swapping process, since formatting can not be done on one card while recording is being done on another card.

I believe I read that it also isn't a good idea to prepare the CF Card for re-use by deleting files on the computer to which files are being transferred. If this this case, a user would have to have enough cards prepared before starting recording where hot swapping is going to be necessary.

Since cards can't be formatted on the computer to which files are transferred (with the standard formatting process), is it possible that C-D could provide a utility to make that possible? I guess I'm asking for that to be on the "wish list".

I doubt this is a high priority, but it may become more important as file sizes become larger as a result of higher bit rates... just a thought.

Thanks,
Steve

Dear Steve,

All of your assumptions are correct.

When we format a card in the nanoFlash or Flash XDR we test the card and write a file that has special information about the card. Thus, we need to do the formatting.

Also, a PC or Mac may not format the card so that optimum performance is obtained, specifically the sector size may be different, or the directory size may be different.

Yes, we could write a utility to format the cards in a PC or a Mac. The problem is our list of features that we are trying to add to the nanoFlash and Flash XDR does not leave us with much time to add this utility at this time.