Posted by nappy on 10/15/07 01:21

"Rick Merrill" <rick0.merrill@NOSPAM.gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Richard Crowley wrote:
>> "Rick Merrill" wrote ...
>>> nappy wrote:
>>>>> What do you think your evidence is? (about the single file)
>>>>
>>>> Not sure what you are getting at there Rick. Can you elaborate on your
>>>> question?
>>>>
>>>> The file system on a firestore is 32 bit. Thus the 2G limit. But when
>>>> you upload the footage into your NLE it will show up as a single file.
>>>> Provided of course that you are on a NTFS or OSX file system.
>>>>
>>>> That's the way it works with the FS100.
>>>
>>>
>>> We seem to view "it will show" in different ways. Your NLE (and my
>>> scheduling s/w for DV files) will display a group of files IF you have
>>> stopped and started the recording. If you have not s/s then the NLE
>>> is smart enough to know that all the -0x files are part of one <thing>.
>>>
>>> But if your OS looks at the files, it sees them as separate.
>>>
>>> "it will show" can refer to the Final Product (one file), but
>>> the actual uploads (to the OS) are separate files. The NLE and
>>> other systems produce a single file, but FTP, disk transfers, and
>>> disk mounts show multiple files.
>>>
>>> In other words, this is a feature of the NLE, not of the FS100,
>>> according to the makers of the FS100.
>>
>> You appear to have missed or fogotten the details of
>> the question. i.e. a single long "shot" which may result
>> in a sequence of 2GB files internal to the Firestore, are
>> seen/downloaded/transfered as a single file upon retrieval.
>>
>> Not sure what the discussion is about, anyway. The Firestore
>> works the way it works regardless of what anyone here says
>> or thinks.
>
> I'm a big fan of the FS devices, and Not a big fan of a "war of words",
> but I also did not want someone to misunderstand the statement made:
> "chain multiple segments together so they look like complete files" -
> which is not true because it is the NLE that chains the segments together,
> NOT the FS.
>

Rick you misunderstood my points and the area of the discussion. It was not
about capturing. But importing files from the FS.
The two are a bit different.

The FS 'chains' segments together with references to the multiple file
segments so they look like single files to the importing app. Once imported
they are concatenated into single files. The references refer to multiple
files on the FS. But to the app importing the files they are singel files.

Has nothing to do with capturing recorded segments.. each of the files we
are discussing in this thread would be one recording. Not multiples. If they
were mults the FS woudl not need to create mutiple files to represent the
recording.

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