Is this thing real?

[Barry Green]

Sure. Why do you ask?

These things work, the only limitation is that you have to have access to the back of the computer…

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[Mike Schrengohst]

Wow, that is cool, I may need to learn Edius a little better!

Mike Schrengohst
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[Jeremy Kromberg]

Wow! I thought the only options were a G4 Laptop ($1000) a P2 Store ($1600) or one of those 5 slot Panasonic card readers that was like ($2500). So if I used one of these to copy P2 cards to a PC would I be able to copy them to a FW drive and then bring that drive to a Mac with FCP for editing? It seems to good to be true. Thanks for the reply. J.

[David S.]

Jerry:

You should confirm that this PCI card will work with a G5 desktop Mac first.

Not certain it will.

[Barry Green]

[Jeremy Kromberg] “So if I used one of these to copy P2 cards to a PC would I be able to copy them to a FW drive and then bring that drive to a Mac with FCP for editing? It seems to good to be true.”

Yes you could do exactly that. We’ve been using a PC laptop to copy the cards over to FAT32 FW drives, and then edit on the Mac. Works just fine.

Having a $70 card reader instead of a $4,000 deck is one of the advantages of the P2 system. P2 is designed around leveraging cheap, universal, existing computer hardware instead of proprietary video hardware. You can use a $399 PC laptop in the field to offload cards instead of a $2500 slot reader as well.

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[Jeremy Kromberg]

Thanks Barry, I think we just saved enough $$$ to get the AJA HD10AVA or a bigger Chromatte screen. Thanks for the info and I cant wait for the HVX book. Jeremy

[Aaron Wells]

I emailed Specialized Communications and was told it was not compatible with the G5 (or any Mac for that matter).

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

[Mediaman Nc]

Hi Barry,

Whats the transfer time for an 8GB P2 card when using the laptop/fw/external drive combo?

Thanks,

Sam