Posted by nappy on 10/12/07 20:06

"Rick Merrill" <rick0.merrill@NOSPAM.gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Gary Eickmeier wrote:
>>
>>
>> Rick Merrill wrote:
>>
>>> What tool/software do you use to upload?
>>
>> Wouldn't you just copy/paste to the drive you're going to use for
>> editing?
>>
>> Gary Eickmeier
>
> No need to: with an NLE (non-linear editor) the editor will open the files
> on the FS100 as fast as you need them.
>
> I have just read the fs100 manual and confirmed with firestore support
> that the files are NOT combined into a single file. They are PLAYED BACK
> as IF they were a single file, but of course that takes real time to
> transfer over firewire - at the receiving end Windows XP and Linux s/w
> will capture the results INTO a single NTFS file.\\\

yes.. They are two files with a reference file on the FS and one file after
upload.


>
> In the manual the words "single file" refer to the capture of SNAP
> pictures, not to video stream.
>
> In other words if you use disk "files" you still have the "2GB" limit
> and about 15 separate files to deal with, Not a single file.

That's what I had hoped to imply.

>
> To summarize, to get a single file requires realtime (playback). To
> copy as disk files you get a batch of files. To use as IF it were
> a single file an NLE will make the collection transparently LOOK as if
> they were a single file, but they are not.
>
>
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