Posted by Rick Merrill on 10/19/07 23:54

Gary Eickmeier wrote:
> 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

Sounds like you're having fun! But you don't have to drag the
files to your hard drive. The FS *is* a hard drive, so just tell
Premiere to use that drive to find the data.

I run on a PC so I can open a DOS (haha) window and use wildcard rename
on the files.

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