• Panasonic Cameras

  Importing P2 Cards

  Posted by Maracamp on October 21, 2007 at 7:27 pm

  I am transitioning from a Panasonic DVX-100B to a Panasonic HVX-100 and am having some trouble with the P2 cards.

  – When I connect the camcorder to the external hard drive (160 GB g-drive mini) via firewire, I am unable to format the HDD or Copy to HDD. On the camera menu those options are grayed out. The only viable option is to verify.
  -When I connect the camcorder to my computer (Macbook OSX 10.4.10, 2.16 GHz Intel Core Duo Processor, 2 GB Memory) via firewire, I am not able to import the P2 media through final cut (6.1).
  -I have been able to import on a different mac (Powerbook G4, 1.5 GHz, 1 GB memory) running fcp 5.1. In that case I found that when I go to file, import, there is an option for Panasonic P2. My macbook does not have that option.

  I would appreciate any insight into solving these issues. Thanks.

  Barry Green replied 18 years, 10 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Barry Green

  October 22, 2007 at 6:46 am

  1) the HVX can’t power an external drive, so you have to make sure that the drive has adequate power.

  2) in FCP6 it’s called “log & transfer”, in earlier versions it was “file->import->Panasonic P2”. Go to “log & transfer” and it should work.

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