> However notice 1.5 hours on 8 GB card. Video takes a lot of room, and if > you are doing a lot of recording have lots of cards available.
What some shooters do is offload during the day. Most any laptop will hold hundreds of hours of video footage, so you can keep shooting all day long with 1 or 2 memory cards. The pros have dedicated offload devices, usually RAIDs (like their SSDs). > The raw data rate for USB is higher than FW, but as is often the case, > things are not what they first appear to be. USB is processor bound, FW > is not, so effective data rates are higher with FW. > > I would not be so sure that FW is obsolete. Video folks need speed and > are less likely to give it up for a $2 savings achieved by using cheap > hardware. Please please. This thread is clearly labeled USB3. That's THREE. A version of firewire that even comes close to it in speed will likely never see the light of day. Not the first time a lesser tech has won out in the end. But the fact is, the multicore CPUs we have these days have so much unused power sitting there who really cares if some CPU is used to transfer files? ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
