Quicker upload than firewire?
Discussion
I am shooting a lot of footage at the moment and am getting tired of the amount of time it takes to capture the raw footage onto my PC. I am using firewire from my DV camcorder Canon MV750i
For example if I arrive home with 10 hours of tape I now have to take 10 hours playing the tapes while it is captured by the PC. Is there a quicker way?
I am thinking, what about shooting direct to a Hard disk drive recorder or a solid state video jukebox. When back home is it then as simple as connecting the storage device to the 'puter and just importing the raw footage into my Editing package as if it were already on my Hard Drive?
For example if I arrive home with 10 hours of tape I now have to take 10 hours playing the tapes while it is captured by the PC. Is there a quicker way?
I am thinking, what about shooting direct to a Hard disk drive recorder or a solid state video jukebox. When back home is it then as simple as connecting the storage device to the 'puter and just importing the raw footage into my Editing package as if it were already on my Hard Drive?
Yup. That works. Shot 3 hours of continuous on to a laptop in a rucksack in the past.
To be honest though, as there's usually a fair bit of post processing to do, you'd be better off processing one tape whilst xfering the next. It's unlikely that you'll post process at greater than real time anyway.
To be honest though, as there's usually a fair bit of post processing to do, you'd be better off processing one tape whilst xfering the next. It's unlikely that you'll post process at greater than real time anyway.
Quick reply, thanks 
Interesting idea. Are you talking about a seperate PC to be doing my capture and another to do my editing on? That could work nicely - my existing low-spec to do realtime capture and then a new fast spec to edit/burn.
[Thinking hat on] Would it be better to spend more on quicker post processing than quicker upload
Interesting idea. Are you talking about a seperate PC to be doing my capture and another to do my editing on? That could work nicely - my existing low-spec to do realtime capture and then a new fast spec to edit/burn.
[Thinking hat on] Would it be better to spend more on quicker post processing than quicker upload
Do you mean just connecting the cams DV socket to the firewire port and capturing as you shoot? Hmmm that sounds viable. I am setting up a multi camera environment and want to save time uploading from the cams so this could work. It would mean a few laptops ££££ but I can see it would work and save a lot of time
Yep that's exactly what I mean. It's certainly without a doubt on this earth the quickest way to get the video data onto a machine.
If you hook the laptop up to the camera using FireWire you should be able to capture straight onto the laptop.
I know Premiere can manage this and I expect it's not a rare feature software-wise.
If you hook the laptop up to the camera using FireWire you should be able to capture straight onto the laptop.
I know Premiere can manage this and I expect it's not a rare feature software-wise.
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