Need a P2 Viewer for the Mac

[Jan Crittenden livingston]

Wait till NAB, there may be surprises in store. 😉 Cannot say any more.

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

[Bob Gundu]

Wooohoooo!

[David S.]

Everybody loves surprises, Jan.

or at least the hint of them.

🙂

David S.

[Chris Baldwin]

Hallelujah!

Any way of bumping up NAB to say… next week?!?!?!

JAN!!! APPLE!!!

MXF support in FCP not just a P2 viewer!!!

Come on you can do it!!!

Chris Baldwin
Shoulder High Productions
Media of the World; For the World!
https://www.shoulderhigh.com
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[Barry Green]

Everyone, please request MXF support from Apple. They need to hear us, because that is the one missing element in an almost perfect editing system.

A proper P2 Viewer for the Mac would be most ideal as well.

Jan, NAB can not come quickly enough! 🙂

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[Stuart]

I Second the call for a p2 viewer on the mac AND Full MXF support in FCP 6 Stuart, I do love this HVX 200 camera !!!

[Rob Roberts]

Jan, I hope there are no unpleasant “surprises” for those of us who have already bought this camera, paid $1400 a piece for two 8Gb cards and invested in a P2 Store.

Robby Roberts
V.P. Creative Services

[Jan Crittenden livingston]

Hi Robby,

And what do you think those unpleasant surprises would be? This thread was about a P2 viewer for a MAC, how would that be unpleasant for you?

Best,

Jan

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

[Rob Roberts]

First of all, I have purchased and received all that I mentioned (HVX-200, two 8Gb cards and the P2 store). I love what I have seen so far, accept of course for the MAC workflow issues which are deplorable. I am just concerned that I’m going to have egg on my face if the P2 store is rendered obsolete in less than 2 months. This package was alarge purchase for our company, and it was my decision to pull the trigger. Its just that I have been burned before buying this close to NAB (though I ordered my package months ago), so I am hopeful that as someone who invested early in your product, I will be pleasantly surprised by what I find at NAB.

[Chris Baldwin]

God the idea of P2 being obsolete with something that would come out at NAB is frightening. I can’t see how that would happen though… Can someone describe this nightmare scenerio? I know the new Mac PCExpress slots need an adapter for the P2 cards. Is that all that we should expect? Why would Apple not bring full support of all media and formats into its supported infrastructure? I know it doesn’t support Sony’s XDCAM at least for now. But how would NAB spell the end of P2?

I’m not sure I really understood Jan’s last comment. Do people feel more or less assured that FCP is going to support Panasonic’s MXF?

Is what people refer to as a “P2 viewer” a third party program for Macs that allows you to scroll through a directory of MXF clips, review their meta data, and watch them? My idea of native support within FCP is that importing the clips into FCP doesn’t unwrap the MXF file into a QT file, or at least it allows for full integration of P2 MXF metadata within FCP’s project files?

A little help connecting the dots… thanks

Chris Baldwin
Shoulder High Productions
Media of the World; For the World!
https://www.shoulderhigh.com
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