Older Powerbook Titanium (will it work?)

[Barry Green]

That should work; you’d have to download the driver from the Panasonic website. I don’t know if there are any limits on which systems the driver will work on, I would think it would work.

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[Jan Crittenden livingston]

>I have a Powerbook Titanium that has the card slot for the P2, but it’s not fast enough to run FCP 5.0.4. Can I still use this to drag the media off the P2 cards?

This may mean that there is something that the PCMCIA driver needs to see is not there, so unfortunately this is very hypothetical.

>1) If it works, insert P2 into old Powerbook.
>2) Drag media folder, the whole thing, to a Firewire Drive (I might use a RAID 5 Firewire drive, like the Platinum RAID…).

Make a folder, call it Whatever, Card One, Drag the contents folder into the Newly created folder.

>3) Plug the FireWire drive into a Laptop that can run FCP 5.0.4 (a 12″ 1.5 GHz) and convert the files to QuickTime. (Do I toss the original unconverted media folder on the FireWire drive when FCP is done?)

Only if you are sure that you will never take it to a PC platform.

>4) Reformat P2 card? Erase? How do I do that with the Old Powerbook. Can I screw up the card somehow?

Delete the files by doing an Option Delete, including the last little txt file.

>Don’t have the camera yet, but we’ll be shooting with it this weekend. That’s why I’m speaking in hypotheticals.

Good luck, as I said, I am not sure the PCMCIA exe that comes with the camera will load without 5.04. So if it doesn’t don’t be surprised.

Best,

Jan

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

[Tunaking]

Update… We finally got our hands on the HVX200. I downloaded the P2 driver for the Powerbook and loaded it onto an old Titanium Powerbook (which cannot run FCP 5).

I slid in the P2 card and the Powerbook successfully saw the card. I made a new folder on a firewire drive, copied the media over to it.

Then I took the drive and attached it to my 1.5 GHz 12″ Powerbook and using FCP 5.0.4 successfully imported the footage.

So, in the end…we don’t need to buy a new 15″ G4 Powerbook. The old clunker works!