Can I Rename P2 Cards?

[Rick Blackburn]

My question is why when formatting cards in camera and now more importantly with the MSU10 does the card name given with P2Formatter get wiped. Is it a MacOS thing? We just completed a verité feature (60-1 ratio) using the MSU10 and while the unit is great in all other aspects the NO NAME thing makes card management difficult when 18-22 NO NAME disk images show up at the studio for archiving. It would be great if Pana or a third-party could come up with a way to permanently name our cards so that we could treat them like magazines.

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Rick Blackburn] “My question is why when formatting cards in camera and now more importantly with the MSU10 does the card name given with P2Formatter get wiped.”

Yes. You can use a Mac and the Panasonic supplied P2 Formatter to name your cards something significant, or just rename the disk image.

[Rick Blackburn]

Hi Jeremy,

I know and use P2Formatter. Its a great little app for P2 card management. The problem is that the MSU10 does not recognize the names given by P2Formatter and they show up as NONAME on the MSU10 disk. Further once the cards are offloaded and reformatted in the MSU10 the names given to them by P2 Formatter are lost. I figure since I am using all Panasonic gear in my workflow (software and hardware) they should recognize each others protocol. The fact that the MSU10 wipes the names given to the card by P2formatter makes multiple card management pretty impossible once they are in the MSU10. I am looking for a way to preserve the name data given by P2formatter when using the MSU10.