ProVideo Coalition.com: Bruce's Blog by Bruce A. Johnson

If you have any experience at all with the FS-5, using the FSH-200 will feel very familiar. The display looks exactly like the FS-5 in operation, with a large, bright LCD screen announcing many parameters, including: recording status (rec, stop, play, etc.); battery status; the DTE format, which determines what codec you are recording into (more on that later); several counter choices, including synchronous DV/HDV timecode or shot-length counter; and time remaining on the CF card.

The face of the FSH-200 sports a grand total of nine buttons and one multi-functional wheel. Four of the buttons can have their functions assigned to them through the menu system, such as internal or external roll control, what type of time code is displayed on the screen, and CF, the button you must push before removing the flash card. The wheel, while fairly tiny for a guy with mitts like mine, is essential to navigating through the menu structure.

It is probably important to talk a moment about what the FSH-200 does *not* do compared to its FS-5 cousin, namely: no remote metadata collection, no video preview on the display, and no timelapse recording. However, the FSH-200 does feature the most useful ability of new-tech recorders – Retro Cache. Essentially, if Retro Cache is invoked in the menus, the FSH-200 is always in record, saving 5 seconds at a time. But it waits for the [REC] button to be hit to save the pre-recorded file. Think of Retro Cache as the fishing-show lifesaver – you don’t have to eat away at the CF card capacity while you wait for the bass to hit the bait. Once it does, hit [REC] and you just saved that shot of the lunker flying out of the water, even though you weren’t really “rolling tape.” (Jeez, am I going to have to put “rolling tape” in quotes from now on?)

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If time *is* actually money, the time saved not capturing in real-time could pay for it pretty quickly.

BAJ

Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 08/13 at 07:29 PM

Hi, Bruce. I will buy an FSH-200 asap. But first, please help me out on those two questions:
1. if i use a Canon XH A1 camera, do i need a minidv tape for the FSH-200 to work ? I saw this on a pdf from Focus web site (a list with compatibility camcorders). I need to be sure that i will get rid of minidv tapes forever
2. it’s pretty hard to find and buy large CF cards, i mean x333 speed and >32 GB. Can i use x233 CF cards instead and shoot in SD or HD video ? Thank you in advance.

Best regards,

Gabi

Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 08/21 at 06:48 AM

hi!
i’m using a dsr 400p with fsh 200 and sandisk extreme III 32gb for shooting, and it works well. but i don’t know why when i put fsh200 on sony’s fx7 and dsr 250 i did NOT HAVE SOUND! do you have any ideea why? i tryed 44khz as well as 32khz its the same problem. i must say that on the tape the sound was perfect but on the CF was only noise.
thanks a lot !

Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 10/19 at 07:46 AM

Can you tell me if the FS-H200 Pro can record be set to record to tape and CF Card simultaneously .. but when it comes time to change the tape ... will the unit continue to record onto the card simultaneously?

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