FOCUS Enhancements FS-3 - Manual (Page 36)

Mounting FireWire Disk Drives to Windows
XP, 2000, 98SE and ME Computer Systems
On a Windows based computer system, simply
double click the My Computer icon on the top
left hand corner of the desktop. You will see
the following window:
Locate your FireWire disk drive. This will
probably be labeled (E:), (F:), (G:) etc. (drive
C: is usually your computer’s main disk drive).
Once located, double click on the FireWire
disk drive. (If you have trouble locating the
FireWire disk drive, right mouse click each
drive and select Properties from the menu.
Click the Hardware tab which will list the
drive type). Once opened, you should see the
following window:
The FireWire disk drive contains several
different files. Clips can appear as RawDV
(.dv), AVI Type 1 (YYYYMMDD-
HHMMSSa01), AVI Type 2 (YYYYMMDD-
HHMMSSb01), Canopus AVI
(YYYYMMDD-HHMMSSb01), Matrox AVI
(YYYYMMDD-HHMMSSm01 with a
separate .wav audio file per track), QuickTime
(.mov) and Avid OMF (.omf with two separate
.aif audio files per track.).The FAT32 file
system has a limitation where any particular
file cannot exceed 2GB in size. This equates
to roughly 9 minutes of recording time.
When clips are being recorded to FireStore
that exceed 9 minutes in length, FireStore
automatically creates a new file without
dropping any frames. The two clips will
have the same primary file name, however,
the last tow digits will be different. The first
2GB part of the clip will be labeled with
“-01” after the primary file name. The second
2GB segment will be labeled with a “-02”.
Additional 2GB segments will be labeled
with a “-0X” number.
With most NLE systems on a Windows
computer, it is possible to utilize clips
within the timeline simply by selecting the
clips on the source volume (in this case, the
connected FireWire disk drive) and importing
them directly into the NLE’s bin. Clips can
then be immediately used in the NLE’s
timeline. With FireWire disk drives such as
the FireStore FSHDD-1, the drive itself is fast
enough to directly stream the clips to the NLE
eliminating the need to copy or transfer the
clips before use.
When utilizing the Avid OMF file format, it
is necessary to follow the following steps to
import clips.
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