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Delete P2 contents on computer?
I swear that I used to be able to insert a P2 card, copy the contents off of it, then drag them to the trash and the empty the trash by holding down the option key. I KNOW I did this. This is what we did for the first project I did, Mexican American War. My producer remembers this happening too.
But now…I can’t. I have to reformat the card in the camera, and that shuts the camera down for a few and isn’t helpful when you need to do continuous shooting.
Anyone help with this? Remember this? Or am I coo-coo?
Shane
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Flip the protection tab on the p2 card?
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The card is unprotected.
Shane
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You can delete the contents on the Mac but it will show up unreadable in the camera. I’ve even tried emptying the contents out of each individual folder on the card and deleting them which technically leaves the file structure the same but it still is unreadable by the camera. The only way that I am aware of is to reformat in camera.
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i usually use the p2 store to reformat. won’t tie up the camera that way.
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You are right Jeremy but some of got rid of the P2 store while we could still get something for it. It was fast becoming obsolete as a storage device but it did make a good formatting tool.
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[Dave Neyman] “but it did make a good formatting tool. “
…and card reader as I can’t use the duel adaptor as all my storage is sata.
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Their’s always the P2 content management application. A bit slow responding at times, but it has worked well for me.
Vince
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Does the P2CMS reformat the card? Or allow you to erase it?
I’ll have to test this when I get home from Jury Duty.
Shane
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Shane:
Open the Log & Transfer window in FCP. High-light all the clips and press “Delete”. This will delete all the clips from the card, while retaining the clip-name file.
If you format the card from finder, then the first new clip you record on the card is back to 0001XX, which really sucks. If you reformat the card in the camera, the same thing happens, which means that you have to select all the clips in the camera and delete them there (as opposed to reformatting the card).
IMHO, reformatting a card is almost always a really bad idea, the exception being when you start a new “big” project”.
Ken
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[Ken Nemetchek] “Open the Log & Transfer window in FCP. High-light all the clips and press “Delete”. This will delete all the clips from the card, while retaining the clip-name file.”
Well, that doesn’t really work for the workflow I employ. I want to KEEP the original P2 file structure, so I copy the contents of the card to an external firewire drive…Contents and lastclip.txt file. I don’t import into FCP until I get back to the office. I back up the original P2 file structure. In the field import and erase of the card like you mentioned limits me to using FCP for my footage. And if the footage ever gets corrupt, I have no backup. If a later version of FCP doesn’t like the import (as what happened between 5.0.4 adn 5.1.1) then I’d be hosed.
No, I need to copy the contents off, then erase the card and get it back to the camera.
[Ken Nemetchek] “If you format the card from finder, then the first new clip you record on the card is back to 0001XX, which really sucks.”
That doesn’t bother me. Those numbers are irrelevant to me. As long as they are unique names, I don’t care. I change the names when I import anyway.
[Ken Nemetchek] “If you reformat the card in the camera, the same thing happens, which means that you have to select all the clips in the camera and delete them there”
Man, that takes a lot of time. Nope…I’ll reformat in the camera. Faster. And when you are cycling from one card to the next, you’ll find that the numbers continue…
Shane
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