Anyone using OS X Lion with P2 cards?

[Mike Varga]

i’m having the same issues- not mounting

[Wolf Austad]

Current P2 drivers for OS X are 32 bit. I think Panasonic needs to write new 64bit P2 drivers since Lion is 64bit. Maybe it’s possible to boot Lion in 32bit mode? If you try this, please let us know if it works!

Thanks, Wolf

Aasulv Wolf Austad, fnf
Director of Photography
Los Angeles based

[Stephen Snow]

Yeah, I’m having the same problem. Very frustrating. Panasonic’s site is terrible, and there’s no mention of new software for Lion coming out, much less support.

[Alison Huckett]

Hi,

Just wandering if you managed to resolve this issue?

We may be upgrading to Lion at some point in the near future, and a lot of our footage is shot on the P2.

[Stephen Snow]

HI Alison,

Yes. Turns out it wasn’t a Lion issue at all. In fact it was rather embarrassingly simple. Being a Mac guy I’m used to using Firewire for transfer. That doesn’t work. I then tried a USB data transfer cable (the one that’s flat (the same) on both sides. That didn’t work, either. Turned out all I needed was a MINI USB to USB cable. When connected the P2 card in the camera shows up as a drive on the desktop and you can work with it easily with either FCP 7 or Premiere CS5. I’m making the switch from FCP to Premiere, and I love it so far. Faster, easier, more powerful. I have not bothered with FCP X.

So, simple: Use a mini USB (connected to the camera) to USB (to the computer).

Blushing at my silly mistake. ~:-)

[Connie Bottinelli]

To all,
I just upgraded to Lion last week and had the same issues – P2 cards not mounting.
Using: MacBookPro, P2card adaptor in express slot – been working PERFECTLY for 2 years. Camera Panasonic hvx200. Today, the laptop saw the card, but wouldn’t mount it.

Has anyone solved this yet without using the camera? In a slight panic – in the middle of a new shoot!

Haven’t checked out what impact Lion will have on updates for camera yet.

Advice is greatly appreciated for some panic relief.

Connie

[Stephen Snow]

Are you using a mini-USB or a USB-to-USB (data) cable? I was using a data USB, had to use mini USB. The AG-HPX250 also doesn’t work with 1390. Hope this helps.

[Connie Bottinelli]

Steven, Thanks for the reply. I ended up using the hvx200 with 1394 cable last night, which worked fine for me (tried usb as you suggested but didn’t work).

But, my question is why is my dual adapter, plugged into my macbookpro, not mounting the cards now? Fool proof for the past 2 years. Computer sees the card, but won’t mount it. Tried several times. Is this a Lion upgrade issue? Panasonic site said no updates drivers needed. What am I missing?

I need to continue shooting while cards are being wrangled in the field with the dual adaptor through macbookpro to store on g-drive.

Others in this thread having same mounting issue – anyone solved it??

Connie

[Wolf Austad]

The Duel Adapter hasn’t worked since OSX 10.4 Tiger, and even then it was notoriously unreliable. You obviously had a solid piece of luck with yours. Good for you. I only used the Duel a little bit, but enough to permanently ban it from my set. Drivers for the Duel adapter will not be updated to work with newer operating systems.

Best advice is to buy the Panasonic USB 2.0 reader.

Or you could install the older operating system on a partition of your computer and boot into that when you need to use the Duel adapter. (Not recommended by me.)

Aasulv Wolf Austad, fnf
Director of Photography
Los Angeles based

[Stephen Snow]

Just FYI, I didn’t use an adaptor. Just a straight mini-USB-to-USB cable from the camera to the computer.