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I drank the coolaid
So I finally made the move to P2 and bought an HPX 170.
I will be editing on a MacPro and was wondering the best way outside of a Panasonic card reader to get the files off the P2 card and onto a hard drive for editing.
I have done some research and it seems that most people connect through USB 2.0, but in reading the manual, I notice that I can also connect via Firewire to my MacPro. Wouldn’t this be the best way to connect to the computer to transfer the files? It would be much faster than USB 2.0.
Thanks and looking forward to getting to know the format and the camera.
Daniel Weber
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A card reader is the fastest way to do this. Using FW or USB from the camera will work fine, but ties up your camera. We always transfer off the P2 cards in the field and use a Duel Adaptor and Shotput P2 with our MBP onto a mirrored RAID drive and another separate drive that becomes our backup. Offload of a 16GB card with verification takes about 12 minutes.
John
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Try the Dual Adaptor- that said it is buggy as heck and dies often. If you get lucky you’ll be all set. Nothing beats the P2 reader from Panasonic, though it is quite pricey.
Noah
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Noah and John,
Thanks for the feedback. It is interesting that Sony makes a $250 SxS reader that can be used on desktops, but the Panasonic reader is $2000.
Daniel Weber
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Yes, the Panasonic is kinda spendy, but it has NEVER failed me in hundreds of transfers.
Plus, it has the internal drive which is only 60GB, but that’s 3 cards worth, which is a grand total of 120 minutes of HD footage.I have yet to shoot that much in one day.
If you’re shooting 5 to 6 hours a day of actual footage, THEN I can see another plan.
Bill
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Be on the lookout for the Sonnet Qio which will be released in July.
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And it costs $1000??
I can’t believe that it is this expensive to transfer footage from P2 to a desktop.
Maybe I will do the unthinkable and buy a cheap PC laptop to do the transfers with.
Daniel Weber
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[Daniel Weber] “And it costs $1000?? “
It has two PCMCIA card slots (along with Express/34 and CF) and allows connection of up to 20 drives, not that you’d need 20 drives.
Still, the Duel Systems is unreliable and Panasonic’s solution is great (we have, use and love a PCD20), but it’s twice the price. $995 starts to look pretty good.
Jeremy
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John
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I must be one of the lucky ones, I have had the Duel Adapter for three years now and used it on four different Apple laptops with nary a hiccup. Works great for me, bulletproof, just does what it is supposed to do and cost me $119.00
I have dumped thousands of cards with it in the past three years.
Dan
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My experience, too. Two years using the Duel without a problem. I suspect ones that have had problems are not mechanically kind to the adapter.
John
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