Weighing less than one pound and only 1.5 inches thick, the Focus FS-100 Portable DTE Recorder brings Direct To Edit® recording technology to your Panasonic P2 camera. Featuring cost effective storage, native QuickTime support and other DTE capabilities that you have come to rely on, the Focus FS100 is designed to help you excel in the field.

Featuring a comprehensive backlit display, an easy-to-use menu system, a built-in hard drive, and a removable, rechargeable battery, the Focus FS-100 is the perfect DTE companion for the Panasonic camcorder. Audio, video, timecode, and control information is passed through a single FireWire cable, allowing you to record directly the the FS-100's internal hard disk. The FS-100 includes a six- or ten-second electronic shock cache to ensure that you never lose footage. Advanced features such as time lapse, retro disk recording, scene marking, and clip categorization make the FS-100 Portable DTE Recorder the perfect companion for handheld shoots. When recording is complete, your footage is ready to edit instantly—no capturing, file transfer, or file conversion is required.

The new FS-100 250GB model offers over 11 hours of recording in 720p24PN mode, 9 hours in 720p25/30PN mode or 4.5 hours in full frame rate 720p/1080i DVCPRO HD mode, setting a new standard for long recording.

The ultra-long continuous record times are now even more economically viable, as our FS-100 250GB offers a stellar 4.5 hours of continuous recording duration at the full DVCPRO HD 100Mbps/60frame data rate. At a recording cost of $11/GB, the FS-100 250GB offers incomparable capacity-to-cost advantage to Panasonic DVCPRO HD P2 camera owners on long format shoots with the added value of supporting both P2 or QuickTime formats for drag-and-drop Final Cut Pro compatibility.

Native Frame-Rate Recording
The FS-100 enables you to record DVCPRO HD at 720p 24/25/30 in P2 or QuickTime file formats at native frame rates. Only the required frames are recorded. This feature not only eliminates the need to remove pulldown or duplicate frames during ingest, but also enables you to record twice as much DVCPRO HD video to disk. The FS100 also supports variable frame rate (VFR) recording for spectacular slow-motion and fast-motion effects. VFR files are imported directly into your NLE system’s timeline—no conversion is required.

QuickTime Reference Movies
The FS-100 uses the FAT32 disk format, allowing up to 2GB of recorded video per clip. While recording, the FS-100 automatically creates a new clip when the 2GB limit is reached, ensuring that no frames are dropped. Depending on the length of your recording, you may have multiple 2GB clips.

After your recording is complete, you can go to the FS-100 Utilities menu and create a *QuickTime reference movie. This movie acts as a pointer, referencing your multiple clips to form one movie. This feature makes clip management more efficient, especially when editing—your NLE will import the reference movie as one clip.

NLE System Compatibility
Because the FS-100 is capable of recording video in a wide range of formats, it’s compatible with a large number of nonlinear editing systems. For example, you can record DVCPRO 50 or DVCPRO HD in native QuickTime mode and import clips directly into Final Cut Pro.

Input/Outputs
DV video I/O: 25, 50, or 100 Mb/s (1 x 6-pin IEEE-1394); FireWire computer I/F–up to 400 Mb/s (1 x 6-pin IEEE-1394); GPI and RS-232C control (1 x 3.5mm minijack)

Audio
DVCPRO HD input: Embedded 4-channel (48 kHz, 16-bit); DVCPRO 50 input: Embedded 4-channel (48 kHz, 16-bit); DV input: Embedded 2-channel (48 kHz, 16-bit) or 4-channel (32 kHz, 12-bit); Note: 4-channel (12-bit, 32 kHz) audio is supported only in DTE Technology with RawDV file format]

Video

• DVCPRO HD
  • 4:2:2, 8-bit, 6.7:1 compression, 100 Mb/s
  • 60Hz models: 1080 60i 24p/24pA/30p; 720 60i 24p/30p; 720p 24/30; 720 24PN/30PN (PN mode also allows VFR support)
  • 50Hz models: 1080 50i 25p; 720p 25; 720 25PN (PN mode also allows VFR support)
• DVCPRO 50
  • 4:2:2, 8-bit, 3.3:1 compression, 50 Mb/s
  • 60Hz models: 480 60i 24p/24pA/30p
  • 50Hz models: 576 50i 25p
• DV/DVCPRO
  • 4:1:1 (4:2:0 for DV-PAL), 8-bit, 5:1 compression, 25 Mb/s
  • 60Hz models: 480 60i 24p/24pA/30p
  • 50Hz models: 576 50i 25p

DTE Formats

• DVCPRO HD
  P2 MXF, P2 MXF PN, QuickTime, QuickTime PN, QuickTime Reference
• DVCPRO 50
  P2 MXF, QuickTime, QuickTime Reference
• DV/DVCPRO
  RawDV, AVI Type 1, AVI Type 2, AVI Type 2 24p, Matrox AVI, Canopus AVI, QuickTime, QuickTime 24p, QuickTime Reference, Avid OMF, Pinnacle AVI, P2 MXF

NTSC only (PAL available - special order - call for pricing)

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