Focus Enhancements FS-H200 – Portable Compact Flash DTE Recorder
Focus Enhancements all new FS-H200 Portable Compact Flash DTE Recorder offers ultra-reliable solid state acquisition with Direct to Edit Technology to your DV or HDV camcorder. FS-H200 utilizes standard Type 1 removable Compact Flash media which providing fast, reliable, and low-cost recording.
The FS-H200 provides, for the first time, solid state acquisition to Editing in one step, recording directly to inexpensive removable Compact Flash memory cards. FS-H200 is connected directly to your DV or HDV camcorder using a single FireWire cable, allowing you to record to CF card only as well as CF card and tape simultaneously.
Using solid state Compact Flash cards means the FS-H200 can be used in the most extreme conditions including high-shock and altitude environments. With the FS-H200, once a recording is completed the Compact Flash card can be removed from the unit and inserted into a memory card adapter for quick computer access or remain in the FS-H200 and mounted to computer via USB. The latest DTE technology ensures that your footage is ready to edit instantly – no capturing, file transfer, or file conversion is required.
The FS-H200 Portable Compact Flash DTE recorder offers unparalleled speed, efficiency and reliability when going from acquisition to editing. By combining DTE technology, reliable solid state recording and advanced caching, the FS-H200 ensures that you never miss an important shot or lose critical footage and that your footage is instantly ready to edit.
The Focus FS-H200 brings the most popular DTE file formats to solid state recording. When used with 25Mb/s HDV cameras. The FS-H200 supports QuickTime 1080i50/60 and 720p25/30 recording for Final Cut Pro use as well as M2T 720p/1080i recording for use in a number of different applications such as, Adobe, Avid and Grass Valley (Canopus)
The FS-H200 features a CF card slot on its side for insertion of standard Type 1, UDMA, 266x minimum Compact Flash Cards (16GB min). Compact flash cards feature a fast interface and very high capacities (currently up to 32GB) at low cost. The FS-H200 also features a captive protective cover for the CF card slot to protect and secure your media.
With the FS-H200, you can record 1080i 50/60 or 720p 30 clips as native QuickTime HDV. The FS-H200 extracts and decodes the audio from the incoming HDV stream, combines it with video stream, and wraps is as a QuickTime HDV file. When recording is complete, your QuickTime HDV file can be imported directly into Final Cut Pro - no capture or conversion is required.
FS-H200 allows you to go straight from shooting to editing by recording video in the NLE-compatible file format of your choice. Enhancing workflow one step further, once a recording is complete, the FS-H200 allows you to remove the Compact Flash memory and mount it to your computer using a standard CF compatible memory card reader. By doing this, you are free to insert another CF card into your FSH-200 and continue shooting while your previous card is being used for editing or archive ingest. If a CF compatible memory card reader is not available, simply leave the CF card in the FS-H200 and mount the unit to a computer via USB2.0 using the available HDD mode.