FireStore FS-3 User Guide
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
.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
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
When utilizing the Avid OMF file format, it is necessary to follow the following steps to import clips.
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