Video Production and Hardware: January 2008 Archives


Sony's SxS PRO Memory Card will change the way event, corporate, and industrial video is captured and posted. In addition to faster transfers, smaller size and longer record times than the standard PC card, the SxS PRO Memory Card increases workflow efficiency, with seamless transition from camcorder acquisition to PC or laptop for editing and archiving. The SxS PRO Memory Card is about half the size of a PC card and fits in ExpressCard 34 and 54 slot sizes. It will initially be available in 8GB and 16GB storage capacity, with higher capacity planned for the future. Providing reliability, durability and expansion flexibility while offering improved performance, the SxS PRO Memory Card may be defined as the flash media of choice , and the definitive media for high definition. ExpressCard™ media technology, the replacement standard for PC cards, supported by PCMCIA, the industry-wide consortium that standardized the PC card. Enter the ExpressCard of the future: Sony's SxS PRO Memory Card. Because it uses a serial interface, it transfers at a faster bus speed, is more reliable and comes in a smaller size resulting in a significantly lower storage cost per minute of high definition video when compared to conventional PC parallel cards. And it’s designed to work with Sony's latest, groundbreaking, handheld HD camcorder, the XDCAM EX model, which houses two SxS PRO Memory Card slots.

Sony's SxS PRO Memory Card will change the way event, corporate, and industrial video is captured and posted. In addition to faster transfers, smaller size and longer record times than the standard PC card, the SxS PRO Memory Card increases workflow efficiency, with seamless transition from camcorder acquisition to PC or laptop for editing and archiving. The SxS PRO Memory Card is about half the size of a PC card and fits in ExpressCard 34 and 54 slot sizes. It will initially be available in 8GB and 16GB storage capacity, with higher capacity planned for the future. Providing reliability, durability and expansion flexibility while offering improved performance, the SxS PRO Memory Card may be defined as the flash media of choice , and the definitive media for high definition. ExpressCard™ media technology, the replacement standard for PC cards, supported by PCMCIA, the industry-wide consortium that standardized the PC card. Enter the ExpressCard of the future: Sony's SxS PRO Memory Card. Because it uses a serial interface, it transfers at a faster bus speed, is more reliable and comes in a smaller size resulting in a significantly lower storage cost per minute of high definition video when compared to conventional PC parallel cards. And it’s designed to work with Sony's latest, groundbreaking, handheld HD camcorder, the XDCAM EX model, which houses two SxS PRO Memory Card slots.

Lacie has just introduced the latest hard drives that will satisfy all of your needs. If you edit with Avid, Final Cut Pro or Adobe Priemer, theses hard drives will fit your needs. Fully loaded with all the best interfaces: eSATA 3Gbits, FireWire 800, FireWire 400 and USB 2.0. This all-in-one professional hard disk offers universal connectivity for PC and Mac users. They are offered in 320gb, 500gb, 750gb and the massive 1tb. The unique, fanless aluminum heat sink design with 60% more surface area for heat dissipation keeps it quiet and safe. Perfect for digital content creation, audio/video editing, DVD authoring, and web animation, etc., the d2 Quadra can handle multiple demanding professional tasks. It can be daisy-chained via FireWire or connected to your DV camera and is even bootable in FireWire for Mac and in eSATA for Mac/PC.
- Quadruple interface for full PC/Mac compatibility
- Superior burst transfer rates up to 115MB/s (eSATA)
- Sturdy aluminum d2 heat sink & ergonomic design

With the popularity of Final Cut Pro and Apple's new line of Macintosh's it is often necessary to move files back and forth between a PC and MAC. Fortunately, Apple's operating system will read FAT 32 and NTFS file systems. There is one catch. OS X can only read from an NTFS formatted device. It cannot write to it. Therefore, It is recommended that you format your hard drives as FAT 32, to you can read and write to your drive on both a PC and MAC.
However, keep in mind that if you format a device as FAT 32 using Windows, the maximum partition size is 32 Gigs. This is relatively small for today's storage requirements. Therefore, you should use the hard drive manufacturer's formatting software so you can format your hard drive with a larger FAT 32 partition. I myself, prefer one giant partition.
Unfortunately, if you've formatted your hard drive on a MAC using 'MAC OS X Extended', a PC cannot natively read the hard drive. However, there is an excellent program called MAC Drive that will allow a PC to read/write to a drive formatted as 'MAC OS X Extended'
With the popularity of Final Cut Pro and Apple's new line of Macintosh's it is often necessary to move files back and forth between a PC and MAC. Fortunately, Apple's operating system will read FAT 32 and NTFS file systems. There is one catch. OS X can only read from an NTFS formatted device. It cannot write to it. Therefore, It is recommended that you format your hard drives as FAT 32, to you can read and write to your drive on both a PC and MAC.
However, keep in mind that if you format a device as FAT 32 using Windows, the maximum partition size is 32 Gigs. This is relatively small for today's storage requirements. Therefore, you should use the hard drive manufacturer's formatting software so you can format your hard drive with a larger FAT 32 partition. I myself, prefer one giant partition.
Unfortunately, if you've formatted your hard drive on a MAC using 'MAC OS X Extended', a PC cannot natively read the hard drive. However, there is an excellent program called MAC Drive that will allow a PC to read/write to a drive formatted as 'MAC OS X Extended'
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