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Once
\n again we are deeply indebted to our quirky and inspirational readership
\n – on at least three counts. First, for responding
\n to our online inquiry in such numbers and with such conviction. We
\n have never gotten 12 comments on a single posting, even if three of them
\n were our own. Second, for actually answering our question and providing
\n us with easy-to-understand explanations for why we can’t now and will
\n never be able to record live video on our iPod, as well as a truly helpful explanation of why we are
\n a retarded dick-head. And finally, for giving us an opportunity to post
\n our final iPod cheesecake photo, at least until we can recruit another willing
\n model.<\/p>\n
Of all the illuminating comments the one that told us Unfortunately, it lists for $800, and the is no word \n I tried using my iPod as a capture disk (after temporarily wiping all Disks for use with Digital Video must write at a minimum of 3.6MB per second Capturing DV onto my G3 500MHz FireWire PowerBook’s internal Toshiba 20GB hard I ran the latest Norton SystemWorks 2.0 "System Info" disk-speed "And the winner is!" …my internal hard drive! The iPod’s transfer The internal PowerBook Toshiba hard disc – according to Norton – writes a 1k The iPod writes at anywhere from a fifth the speed to about one third the speed On the other hand, the FS-4 captures and saves in an Tapeless acquisition is quickly being accepted as the No matter which DV NLE system you have, FireStore FS-4 has you covered. Thanks to all who took the time to contribute<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Once again we are deeply indebted to our quirky and inspirational readership – on at least three counts. First, for responding to our online inquiry in such numbers and with such conviction. We have never gotten 12 comments on a … Continue reading
\n the most was the shortest. The inestimable Steve Garfield brought to
\n our attention the FireStore
\n FS-4<\/a>; a tiny hand-held miniature hard drive
\n designed specifically for direct live video capture.<\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/fs4hand.jpg\")
This sweet piece of technology sports a 80 GB, high
\n speed hardrive which can hold up to 6 hours of high-quality video. It
\n converts the data stream on the fly and records to its disk in a variety
\n of file formats including .avi and Quicktime.<\/p>\n
\n on the web site as to whether it can play our mp3 files as well. Seeing
\n as we just dropped $400 on a new iPod, it will be a while before we are
\n recording our digital video directly onto a FS-4, or anywhere else, apparently.
\n The iPod harddrive IS, categorically, too slow to do the job. Here
\n is a first
\n hand report fr<\/a>om someone who has tried various configurations:<\/p>\n\n
\n music tracks from my iPod) I was greatly underwhelmed: it does NOT
\n do the job!<\/p>\n
\n for sustained transfer of video between a camcorder and storage disk. That equates
\n to roughly 1GB storage for every 5 minutes of video. The FireWire interface (theoretical
\n speed up to 50MB per second) easily handles 3.6MB of data transfer, but not all
\n hard disks can receive and store data at that rate.<\/p>\n
\n disk has never been a problem (nor capturing video onto my external ‘backup’
\n 20GB LaCie hard drive). But, my iPod captures about 7 seconds of video, then
\n there’s a glitch and the PowerBook screen goes black for a couple of seconds,
\n and then capture resumes. But two seconds of video is lost.<\/p>\n
\n check on my internal hard drive, on my 5GB iPod, on the external 7200 rpm LaCie
\n drive,
\n and on an external Western Digital 5400 rpm 20GB drive.<\/p>\n
\n rate is w-a-y too slow for video editing and the other two disks never matched
\n the speed of my internal drive! (though I had just defragmented the spare space
\n on the internal disk, so that influenced things a tad!).<\/p>\n
\n file at 2594k\/sec (just under the DV speed of 3.6mb\/sec), does a 4k sequential
\n write at 8133k\/sec (that’s 8mb\/sec), and a 16k sequential write at 15248k\/sec
\n (that’s 15mb per second, far more than fast enough) – whereas my iPod writes
\n a 1k file at 505k\/sec (far too slow), 4k at 1971k\/sec (still too slow), and 16k
\n at 5520k\/sec (that’s 5.5mb\/sec which is OK).<\/p>\n
\n of my internal hard disk. But it keeps up, above that crucial 3.6MB\/sec speed
\n only for short bursts of file-writing, and doesn’t reliably capture more than
\n about 7 seconds before it’s overloaded. (from iPodlounge)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\n editable format, at least putting to rest the claim that physical size
\n or firewire limitations made it impossible to do what we want; capture
\n audio and video to a small, portable storage device. Just not the
\n iPod. The following is from the FS-4 web page:<\/a><\/p>\n\n
\n standard in broadcast production. Now everyone can make capturing a thing
\n of the past with FS-4 or FS-4 Pro. Record directly from your camcorder
\n while you shoot using Direct To Edit (DTE) Technology. When you are finished
\n shooting, connect FS-4 to your computer and you are instantly ready to
\n edit in the timeline! No capturing, no file transfer, no file conversion.
\n Just shoot, then edit!<\/p>\n
\n On FS-4, files are recorded to disk as RawDV, AVI Type 1, AVI Type 2,
\n AVI Type 2 24p, Matrox AVI, Canopus AVI, QuickTime or QuickTime 24p.
\n The FS-4 Pro model also includes MXF, Pinnacle AVI and Avid DV-OMF support.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n