William Urschel
February 29th, 2008, 09:07 AM
Is there any way to dump EX-1's full resolution files (NOT HDV) from the SxS cards to an external hard drive or other device without a PC, and do it inexpensively? Inexpensively therefore obviates such devices as Convergent Design Flash XDR ($5k) or Wafian ($17k) or any such similar. I'm interested in just copying and storing 1080p files on something such as a couple of portable hard drives until I can return to home base and then capture the files to my editing computer. I'm interested in spending around a thousand dollars on such back-up equipment, instead of $9,000 or so on nine or so 16GB SxS cards.
My shoot will be over a fifteen day period in and around New York City, in two months. Almost all of my regular work is in and around Austin, Texas, and in Austin I have no problem ever in lugging a laptop around for dumping, so a 16GB and an 8GB are fully sufficient under any and all circumstances. But in New York I will be going solo, and I will not be able to transport a laptop along with all the other gear. And since Cineform is not likely to have their proposed device up and running within a couple of months, my purchase of that will have to await their production of the unit!
Someone from the Netherlands posted on this forum a couple of weeks ago stating that we could attach any external recorder for the supported interfaces/output modes - I assume that included transfer of 1080p data over some form of USB. But there was nothing else in that thread supporting the statement, and short of the incredibly expensive devices, my seven hour searches of these and other forums has developed nothing substantive.
Having written this far, another possible solution just occured to me. Upon arriving New York, purchase an appropriate and just barely acceptable laptop, use it to dump the SxS files to two of the tiny portable external HDs, and then carry the external HDs back to Austin with all the precious data, and ship the expedient laptop on a slo boat to China. Yes, and that would involve only a $1,000 expenditure instead of $9,000!
But I really would be most appreciative hearing from anyone out there who might have any successful experience in saving the data without a computer, at a relatively inexpensive price! And if anyone has found a way, I'll bet there are hundreds of others who would also be thrilled with a solution.
My shoot will be over a fifteen day period in and around New York City, in two months. Almost all of my regular work is in and around Austin, Texas, and in Austin I have no problem ever in lugging a laptop around for dumping, so a 16GB and an 8GB are fully sufficient under any and all circumstances. But in New York I will be going solo, and I will not be able to transport a laptop along with all the other gear. And since Cineform is not likely to have their proposed device up and running within a couple of months, my purchase of that will have to await their production of the unit!
Someone from the Netherlands posted on this forum a couple of weeks ago stating that we could attach any external recorder for the supported interfaces/output modes - I assume that included transfer of 1080p data over some form of USB. But there was nothing else in that thread supporting the statement, and short of the incredibly expensive devices, my seven hour searches of these and other forums has developed nothing substantive.
Having written this far, another possible solution just occured to me. Upon arriving New York, purchase an appropriate and just barely acceptable laptop, use it to dump the SxS files to two of the tiny portable external HDs, and then carry the external HDs back to Austin with all the precious data, and ship the expedient laptop on a slo boat to China. Yes, and that would involve only a $1,000 expenditure instead of $9,000!
But I really would be most appreciative hearing from anyone out there who might have any successful experience in saving the data without a computer, at a relatively inexpensive price! And if anyone has found a way, I'll bet there are hundreds of others who would also be thrilled with a solution.