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p2 card offload
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Using and old power book with a 54mm slot would work as would an older macbook pro with a duel adapter as long as you are not running snow leopard.
And Jeremy, I think that you misunderstood me when I spoke of “P2 Nonsense.” What I meant was basically what Noah said. The duel adapter was cheap and not the best, but it worked. When it came out that it doesn’t support snow leopard, everyone who used that adapter had to either choose between spending $2000 or hold off on upgrading to snow leopard. I myself have held off on upgrading and continue to do so until I can get the Panasonic single slot reader or maybe if I can save for it, the Sonnet Qio. But I think that the disregard for everyone who relied on that workflow, when there literally were no alternatives at that price point in the market, was nonsense and caused a lot of issues for a lot of people.
I agree with you though. You shouldn’t complain about a format that you chose to purchase and work with. If something goes wrong you do what you need to do and do what you’re capable of doing to keep going. That’s why I don’t run snow leopard. But that doesn’t mean that what happened with the duel adapter was any less irritating to a lot of people. But I do love my workflow and I have done nothing but praise panasonic and the p2 workflow on this forum and others. the “nonsense” that i was referring to was about third party issues, not panasonic.
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I live in Cuba so I´ve made a great effort to get a second-hand HVX-200 Panasonic P2 camera. I´ve got a Desktop computer, Dual Core 2.6, 4Gb RAM which is the computer I will use to edit my films. I also have a 1,5 TB hard disk to archive the shot material. Now my question is, could I use a PC laptop Computer which has a PCMCIA slot just to extract and to save that material from the P2 cards and save it in the laptop avoidin the inconvenient to stop shooting by using the camera to extract the shot clips? I´ve asured my self that the card fits in the PCMCIA slot, and it does. Could anybody help me, please?
thanks in advance,
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[Joe Raymond Cardenas Castro] “Now my question is, could I use a PC laptop Computer which has a PCMCIA slot just to extract and to save that material from the P2 cards and save it in the laptop avoidin the inconvenient to stop shooting by using the camera to extract the shot clips?”
Yes you can.
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Thank you very much Jeremy,
But, could you suggest me the driver to use. I forgot to mention that the laptop is a pentium III, but I just want to use it as a card reader and to trasfer to tha 1,5tb hard drive.
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You should be able to find it from this page:
https://www.panasonic.com/business/provideo/p2-hd/downloads-and-updates.asp
Jeremy
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