Posted by Gary Eickmeier on 10/19/07 16:51

I have just tested my new Firestore (FS-4 HD) and here is what I found:

For shots that are greater than 9 minutes long it of course breaks them
into separate clips, all about 2G long. This is copy and pasting them
into my hard drive for editing. For a 40 minute shoot, it took about 7
minutes to download them. The only way to identify the clips is by the
esoteric filenames which are based on the date/time it was recorded. But
for continuous clips over a long time period, they are numbered with the
same start time, but with an m1, m2, m3, etc at the end. But they do not
form up into one clip that can be dragged into the project.

In Premiere, I imported the set of clips for that date (today), and they
formed up in the clip list in the proper order. I deleted the sound
files that I imported by accident, and the sound was still fine. The
Firestore makes separate video and sound files, but the sound is married
to the video anyway, so you can just import the video clips as desired.

The continuous clips played without any break or glitches once I placed
them on the timeline in order. So, I guess my workflow will be to copy
all the files I shoot, import them into the editing program, and then
place them into the timeline. Longer takes will just involve more clips
to drag on over.

If you guys have any smarter way of doing it, please let me know. I
didn't quite follow all of what you said in the previous thead.

Now that only leaves archiving the shoot. Probably use hard drives until
Blu-Ray becomes practical. Maybe just archive the final edit.

Gary Eickmeier

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