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Tourist
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Blackburn, Lancashire, UK
Posts: 2
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Canon XLH1 recording to Hard drive?
Hi,
I just wanted some advice on shooting to a hard drive... can anyone recommend one? I have a Canon XLH1 (PAL) and will be editing with Premier but cant really find a hard drive that jumps out at me. One I have been looking at is the ‘FS-C FireStore 60GB’ for about £1,000 but that seems like a lot of cash... Im sure someone mentioned the ‘FS-4HD 80GB’ for around £800... Im confused. Is anyone using an XLH1 and FS-C/FS-4H together that can comment? And what is the difference (apart from obviously the capacity)? Thanks in advance, Dom Ricioppo |
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Inner Circle
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Augusta Georgia
Posts: 5,421
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Dear Dom,
Disclaimer: I work for Convergent Designs and we make the Flash XDR and the nanoFlash. Dom, you have the choice of two paths. 1. You can record via a Firewire connected device. The Firewire data is already compressed and is always 4:2:0 so you lose some quality. 2. You can record via the HD-SDI output, which is before compression and it is always 4:2:2, which is much higher in quality. Our Flash XDR's and nanoFlashes record from the HD-SDI output. (This is a more expensive solution but you achieve a much higher quality image.)
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Inner Circle
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Wales
Posts: 2,130
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I don't work for Convergent Designs, but if you can afford it I'd go for the Nanoflash. This is a slightly more expensive option than Firestores and the like but it'll take your camera into a different realm entirely - bypassing the horrible HDV compression. I think Firestore-type devices are well well behind the times now, I mean 80gb on a hard drive for instance, you can get 32gb on a tiny compact flash card today!
Steve |
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Tourist
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Blackburn, Lancashire, UK
Posts: 2
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Thanks for the replies guys. However, im the first to admit it, but im an impatient person so iv already gone out and bought myself a ‘FireStore FS-4 PRO HD 80GB’, i got it for £500 though so i dont think i did too bad.
The XDR sounds like a pretty neat piece of kit... but at around £4,800 its out of my price range, as is the NanoFlash ... atleast for now anyway. The FireStore will have to do. Cheers lads. -Dom |
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Trustee
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Posts: 1,138
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"the horrible HDV Compression."
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Dan is quite correct in pointing out that the HD SDI output is superior to compressed 4:2:0 color space formats (Such as HDV), but please understand HDV is not a low quality format per se. The secret to getting prestine results shooting HDV, is to post it in an editing app which will not *recompress* your source material. Unfortunately, FCP and Vegas (As far as I last checked) will not accept HDV 24F for direct fast import. So far, only Avid Media Composer offers both non recompression of the HDV files and 24F import and edit. I have edited several productions shot in HDV on Avid MC and can confirm prestine quality results. Mark |
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