HDX900 and Firestore 23.98 versus 59.94
by Nick Higgins (nickhigz)
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Apr 23, 2008 at 11:12:18 pm
Does anyone have any words of wisdom on whether you can record from the HDX900 to the Firestore at 23.98 instead of 59.94? I think I have tried every which way but haven't successfully cracked the code as its always 59.94. Any advice appreciated.
Re: HDX900 and Firestore 23.98 versus 59.94 by Nick Higgins on Apr 24, 2008 at 2:25:01 pm
Cheers for that. Thats what I was starting to conclude. It would certainly be better if the Firestore could do what an NLE does and strip that signal back down to 23.98 and thereby save you significantly on the file size but I guess it cant (yet!), but we live in hope.
Shooting straight to a hard-drive with a tape back up is a pretty sweet way to go; its super efficient and doesnt feel like you are taking too much risk. Its a shame that the Firestiore is extra-ordinarily noisy and a pain in the arse to operate but being able to bypass the digitising from tape phase is a winner for sure.
Re: HDX900 and Firestore 23.98 versus 59.94 by Noah Kadner on Apr 24, 2008 at 3:19:58 pm
Yep- I would think it would be possible though would probably require much more processing power and intelligence- i.e. expense on the part of the Firestore to strip out the 24p properly. Plus if it messed up you'd be really out of luck. :)
Re: HDX900 and Firestore 23.98 versus 59.94 by Jeff Regan on Apr 26, 2008 at 2:33:21 pm
FS-100 will record in 24PN (Native) mode if the HDX900 is set up
properly. It must be in Free Run for 24PN, although in 30PN it
can be used in Record Run.
I just finished a six day shoot using two FS-100's in 720/24PN
mode with two 900's recording in Quicktime Native. It works
great, ingest is fast and easy. The editor was cutting sequences on set after ingesting a few times per day.
The great thing about 24PN is being able to record over 6 hours
on a 160Gb FS-100, yielding about two and a half minutes per
Gig vs one minute per Gig in 720/60p.
