XDCAM EX and HDD solution at DVinfo.net

Piotr Wozniacki · June 27th, 2007, 12:17 AM

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

June 27th, 2007, 12:17 AM	#1
Piotr Wozniacki Inner Circle Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Poland Posts: 4,086	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? __________________ Sony PXW-FS7 \| DaVinci Resolve Studio; Magix Vegas Pro; i7-5960X CPU; 64 GB RAM; 2x GTX 1080 8GB GPU; Decklink 4K Extreme 12G; 4x 3TB WD Black in RAID 0; 1TB M.2 NVMe cache drive

June 27th, 2007, 01:07 AM	#2
Alex Leith Major Player Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Northampton, England Posts: 500	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! __________________ Alex

June 27th, 2007, 01:17 AM	#3
Piotr Wozniacki Inner Circle Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Poland Posts: 4,086	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! __________________ Sony PXW-FS7 \| DaVinci Resolve Studio; Magix Vegas Pro; i7-5960X CPU; 64 GB RAM; 2x GTX 1080 8GB GPU; Decklink 4K Extreme 12G; 4x 3TB WD Black in RAID 0; 1TB M.2 NVMe cache drive

June 27th, 2007, 07:08 AM	#4
Chris Medico Inner Circle Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Efland NC, USA Posts: 2,322	If this becomes possible the EX will be my next camera for sure. Chris __________________ http://www.LandYachtMedia.com