Does HVX200 Include a Macintosh P2 Formatting App?

[Toke]

[Jan Crittenden Livingston] “Although nothing appeared to be on the card, when reinserting back into the camera, I only had 8 minutes of time left.”

Did you empty your Trash in Mac?

[Jan Crittenden livingston]

It was on the card, not even in the MAC, but in the camera where it was showing no space to record. Gary and I are having a background conversation and we will come back to this later today or maybe tomorrow after a few more trials.

Best,

Jan

Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, DVCPRO, DVCPRO50, AG-DVX100
Panasonic Broadcast & TV Systems

[David S.]

[Jan Crittenden Livingston] “It was on the card, not even in the MAC, but in the camera where it was showing no space to record. Gary and I are having a background conversation and we will come back to this later today or maybe tomorrow after a few more trials.

Best,

Jan”

I appreciate these efforts.

It’s a workflow issue that concerned me from day one when shooting anything but DV. Then, of course, why acquire the camera if you are just shooting DV.

It also figures on whether you go with FireStore, pony up for 8Gb p2 cards, etc.

Jan, when you were reformating in the Mac, were you using the Disk Utility?

Thanks

David S.

[Ron Shook]

David,

[David Saraceno] “I appreciate these efforts.”

Amen! Not only the efforts, but the up-frontness of them.

Jan is a tremendous resource for both us and her company and Panasonic gains a large measure in my eyes from the fact that her efforts go to some degree unchecked by weeny attorneys. She gives a human face and sensibility to a corporate monolith, doesn’t run off in a huff when she or her company are criticised, and I just wish that there were dozens more like her.

Give that Gal a raise and a plaque.

Ron Shook

[Toke]

I meant that when you “delete” something in Os X from any kind of storage, it does not really delete it, but it moves the files to “.Trashes” folder which is hidden in the root of that storage. When you “Empty Trash” then those files are really deleted.

[David S.]

[Ron Shook] “Jan is a tremendous resource for both us and her company and Panasonic gains a large measure in my eyes from the fact that her efforts go to some degree unchecked by weeny attorneys.”

Hey Ron.

I am an attorney.

Although I’m not one of those “weeney” ones. I’m an “unweeney” attorney.

🙂

take care

David S.

[Ron Shook]

David,

[David Saraceno] “I am an attorney.

Although I’m not one of those “weeney” ones. I’m an “unweeney” attorney.”

I almost became one and would probably have become a weeny one at that. (g)

Thanks for the giggle!

Ron

[Jan Crittenden livingston]

Okay kids,

Round two, and good news. Toke thanks for the clue. I wouldn’t have thought that emptying the trash while the card was in the computer would do the trick but it did. The Mac sees the files as locked so you will have to force the delete, but we played with it and we got the computer to release the data. Then took the card over to the camera and it saw an empty card. So David, as Gary said, he just deletes and then re-records.

But then Gary is a lot more MAC savvy then I and it probably didn’t occur to him that I wouldn’t know of a forced delete.

Man I love this business, you learn something new every day!

Best,

Jan

Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, DVCPRO, DVCPRO50, AG-DVX100
Panasonic Broadcast & TV Systems

[Gary Adcock]

[Jan Crittenden Livingston] “I wouldn’t have thought that emptying the trash while the card was in the computer would do the trick but it did. The Mac sees the files as locked so you will have to force the delete, but we played with it and we got the computer to release the data.”

Note: that the MXF header file (last clip.txt) is locked by default, that file cannot just be thrown away.
I also forgot to mention that I have a background script that automatically unlocks any file dropped in my trash.

To qualify Jan’s response –however just deleting the files on the P2 card with my mac does reduce the overall available content of a 4 gig P2 card by about 2.2 megs.

Gary Adcock
Studio37
HD and Film Consultation
Chicago, IL USA

[Jan Crittenden livingston]

[gary adcock] “Note: that the MXF header file (last clip.txt) is locked by default, that file cannot just be thrown away.
I also forgot to mention that I have a background script that automatically unlocks any file dropped in my trash.”

Actually all one has to do to unlock this last txt file is to Control I to ganin info and uncheck the lock file choice and then put it in the trash and empty the trash.

I learned a lot yesterday. 😉

Best,

jan

Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, DVCPRO, DVCPRO50, AG-DVX100
Panasonic Broadcast & TV Systems