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External PCMCIA for Desktop
Does any company manufacture an external PCMCIA card reader? (likely to connect via FW or USB2)
The Panasonic P2 card reader with 5 slots is cute, but way expensive. I have not seen an external
USB PCMCIA card reader before, but I imagine one should and could exist for a far lesser price
than $2000+ for the Panasonic brand named one.Or is it necessary to have the panasonic box for FCP 5 to read/import/capture the files? I would imagine
not, if it works plug and play (w/ firmware) on a laptop with PCMCIA slots.Thanks for the brainpower!
-Ross
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6 Replies
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The issue is that they need to be 32-bit, and USB isn’t, and there are no firewire readers.
The most economical decision is to get a laptop, Mac or PC, with a card bus slot.
Cheaper than anything else, and the laptop is included.
I think Panasonic is missing the boat here.
Give us a 32-bit firewire card reader for $200.00 and you’ll sell a million of them.
David S.
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Get a used powerbook- cheaper than the drive and you get a free Powerbook along with your PCMCIA reader.
Noah
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How about less than $40?
Here’s one– It says the platform is universal– seems cheap enough to try, and if it doesn’t work, you could return it, since it’s from a mac supplier, and they claim it’s universal platform.
https://www.clubmac.com/clubmac/shop/detail.asp?dpno=520452
If you don’t want to have to stick the card in the back of the machine, I suppose you could get a Magma PCI Slot expander.
Steven Bradford
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>Get a used powerbook- cheaper than the drive and you get a free >Powerbook along with your PCMCIA reader.
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>NoahThis of course has crossed my mind, but then this would likely result in a large increase of capture time to capture to laptop, and transfer to the actual edit system.
Would there be a fast way to have the PB connected to the edit system , and just download from the P2 card ‘through the PB’ and sent directly to the edit system? (Of course assuming its newer PB, and the edit system is a G5 Quad)
-Ross
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There’s no p2 viewer for Os X, so you can’t verify your footage with PB…
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Jon,
I am also on the hunt for a p2 solution for my g5 desktop, as the powerbook with the pcmcia isn’t always in our office.
any word on if this adaptor works?
It appears to be 32-bit, im just curious if anyone tried it.
<https://www.clubmac.com/clubmac/shop/detail.asp?dpno=520452>
thanks,
notaro
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