MCE Updates QuickStream DV

[Suhit Gupta]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.mcetech.com/quickstreamdv/index.html' target='_blank'>http://www.mcetech.com/quickstreamdv/index.html</a><br /><br /></div><i>"The revolutionary MCE QuickStream DV, now in its second generation, has re-engineered the entire Digital Video (DV) workflow by completely eliminating the inefficient, time consuming step of transferring (or capturing) DV footage from your DV camcorder tapes into your Mac or PC non-linear editing (NLE) system... The lightweight, portable, self-powered QuickStream DV connects directly to your DV camcorder and captures your DV footage to its miniature high performance hard drive on-the-fly, straight from your camcorder's FireWire port, in your choice of ready-to-edit file formats (.mov, .avi, .dv, and others) while you are shooting!"</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/qsdvheadmain20040729.jpg" /><br /><br />Nice one-step solution for those interested.

[Jason Dunn]

Very, very cool. Quite expensive, but this is bleeding-edge tech and you always pay more for that. I wonder how long it will be until we see the first cameras coming with hard drives instead of tapes? Tapes are certainly more durable though, so I think they'll be around for a long time indeed.

[bryhawks]

It is expensive, but oooh - would I love to have one. I'm no film professional (I tape my kids growing up, albeit with a Sony 3-CCD TRV-900), but this would provide so much more flexibility. I love the SureCapture feature, although you kind of have to have your camera on and aimed for it to be of much use.

I don't see it replacing tapes anytime soon, though - they make a great archival format.