P2 and Mac

[Tom Asakawa]

This is important to me, too…

Anyone?

[Emery]

You cant plug them directly into macs like you can on a PC… Jan says this is an apple issue and they are working with them to resolve it.

[Mike Cohen]

Yes I just looked at all the propaganda on the panasonic website. Seems short sighted that Panasonic rushed the P2 system to market without considering the vast majority of content creators who use Macs might also like to use this system. It seems to make sense, but I don’t see why they could not make a DV sized tape hold DVCPRO HD (I guess a DV tape would only hold about 15 minutes of HD), or make the camera slightly bigger to take a M sized HD cassette.

[Graeme Nattress]

1) It’s an Apple problem, not a Panasonic one. Apple are fixing it.

2) if they had a DVCProHD deck in there it would cost $20,000 more on the camera and you’d need a $20,000 deck in your edit suite – hardly a low cost option.

Graeme

– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP

[Mike Cohen]

I guess the threads further down which speculate larger cheaper P2 cards in coming years will make this more attractive. Even a 64gig P2 card only holds 1 hour of HD video.

Thanks for the clarification.

Mike

[Jan Crittenden livingston]

However if you shoot at 720p/24 YOU GET ABOUT 2.5 MINUTES PER GIG. So the 8 gig card gives you 20 minutes. It is a signitificant benefit to think about.

Best,

jan

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

[Brian FitzGerald]

The original question was “Are the AJ-PCS060G and AJ-PCS060G P2 drives compatable with Mac. According to Panasonic they work with Windows 2000 and Windows XP. Is there a Mac solution?”

I am a 20+ year Mac Only user and one queing up to buy the 200… Is it not correct that we will be able to download files to our Macs from the P2 cards by hooking the camera up by Firewire or USB2? I am pretty sure that was stated in this P2 group a month or so ago.

In other words, you don’t need the AJ-PCS060G and AJ-PCS060G P2 drives to get to work as soon as the camera arrives on the market – right?

Brian FitzGerald
FitzVideo.com

[Jan Crittenden livingston]

The P2 Store can work with Mac now, at the time of its introductipon, it didn’t but it does today. Yes you can hook up the camera and download from there or for the P2 drive.

Hope that helps,

Jan

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

[Toke]

[Graeme Nattress] “if they had a DVCProHD deck in there it would cost $20,000 more on the camera and you’d need a $20,000 deck in your edit suite – hardly a low cost option.”

This has been discussed many times before but one more time; sony build a deck almost a decade ago that could transfer data from/to miniDVCam tape at 100Mbps (quadruple speed).
So if these camera companies would have been willing to push development on that area, there could be a tape mechanism which wouldn’t be significantly more expensive or bigger than normal minidv mechanism, but it could deliver 100Mbps.
Time for that has gone and now we are in the beginning of era of disk and solid state recording.

[Graeme Nattress]

Indeed, but the Sony deck that did that was not cheap either!!

Graeme

– http://www.nattress.com – Film Effects and Standards Conversion for FCP