So MCE Technologies has released a new version of its QuickStream DV, an external. ruggedized FireWire hard drive with a few tricks up its sleeve that makes it a useful companion to any DV camcorder. In fact, it pretty much removes the need for DV tape entirely by connecting directly to your camera’s FireWire port and capturing video as you shoot it. The QuickStream DV also has built-in flash memory buffers which it uses for something called “SureCapture,” which can save up to six seconds of DV video even when the QuickStream is in standby mode, giving it enough time to spin up its hard drive and start going. Then when you’re done, remove the rechargable hard drive and hook it up to your PC or Mac and get all non-linear on it right then and there.
At prices starting around $600 for a 1.5-hour model and going up from there, the QuickStream DV isn’t necessarily a solution for the average Sunday shooter quite yet. But for pros and semi-pros looking to remove tape from their rigs entirely, it looks like a really excellent way to go about it.
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