Re: Capture from Panasonic 1200A question

[pSquared] "Do I understand correctly that to capture from Panaonic 1200A by way of FireWire, no additional FireWire stuff (drives, cameras...) should be hooked up on the same buss?"

You might be able to do it, but it would probably be more reliable not to.

[pSquared] "So...what if drives are used to capture to by way of say a FW800 PCI card?"

You should be fine.

[pSquared] "What I'm wanting to do is capture with one mosheen, and move drives to another to edit without having to copy media from the internal Terrabyte RAID to other drives after capture."

Seems logical.

[pSquared] "Additionally, I've got a KONA 2 card I could put in and capture by way of SDI, right? Will that allow capture then to external drives? If so, roughly what's the file size difference between ingest thru FireWire vs. SDI?"

Depends on what codec you digitize to and if you remove duplicate frames. Firewire would always be DVCPRO HD. HDSDI can be several different codecs including DVCPROHD, 8-bit or 10-bit uncompressed, PhotoJPEG, etc.

If you remove duplicate frames from a tape shot at 23.98 or variable frame rate, that will affect you file sizes too.

-Russ