New Single Card P2 Reader by Panasonic

[Noah Kadner]

Wow- about time!

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[Jeremy Garchow]

Looks like Qio’s are in stock as well.

[Michael Sacci]

That is going to be pretty slow, 1 GB per minute, well at least it is a low cost option. The Sonnet seems like that most thought out solution. Price to speed and function.

[Dan Brockett]

Hi Michael:

Are you sure it will be 1GB per second? Where do you get that spec from? I don’t anyone knows yet about how Panasonic is implementing their dual USB beyond the obvious power delivery.

If that turns out to be true, then it rules it out for me, too slow. Perhaps the QIO will be better way to go.

Dan

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[Jason Jenkins]

[Dan Brockett] “Are you sure it will be 1GB per second?”

1GB per second sounds pretty good to me! 🙂

Jason Jenkins
Flowmotion Media
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[Dan Brockett]

Doesn’t work for me. My old PB G4 downloads P2 cards are a tiny bit faster than 2GB per minute, I can do a 16GB P2 card in a little under 8 minutes. I never erase the cards until I have the material on two drives so if I figure 16 minutes to download a 16GB and about another 10 minutes to clone that card drive to drive, that is too long.

May work fine for others though. Just depends on what sort of shooting situations you find yourself in. I tend to shoot a lot of long interviews back to back though for up to 6-10 hours in a shooting day so this is a big deal for me.

Dan

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[Jason Jenkins]

Sorry, Dan! I guess you didn’t catch my facetious tone. You originally wrote “1GB per second“.

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[Dan Brockett]

Gaah! My bad, I did not catch that. I think 1 GB per second would be quite fast enough. Ahh, perhaps someday with instantaneous holographic RAM?

Dan

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[Arthur Aldrich]

[Dan Brockett] ” I never erase the cards until I have the material on two drives so if I figure 16 minutes to download a 16GB and about another 10 minutes to clone that card drive to drive, that is too long. “

You should be using ShotPut Pro from Imagine Products. It allows for simultaneous data transfers to up to 3 drives. Almost no time penalty. I use it regularly and highly recommend it for P2 workflow.

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[Dan Brockett]

Hi Art:

I was an early adopter of ShotPut Pro. Unfortunately it was causing my MBP Pro to crash. Imagine told me that the only way to make it work was to take out 2GB of RAM, which I could not do as I am a using FCP and Motion quite a bit and need the 4GB of RAM.

So Motion has been a bust for me, it has never worked and it has always crashed my MBP. I think it has something to do with the OS, amount of RAM and the P2 Driver version I have. I have been meaning to sit down and troubleshoot it again, but have not done so yet.

Dan

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