P2 Card Questions

[Barry Green]

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What if anything, can cause damage to a P2 card? Magnets, extreme heat or cold, etc?[/quote]
A sledgehammer might do it.

Short of that, nothing I’ve been able to throw at it. I’ve had ’em in 115-degree 90% humidity, I’ve used ’em in the arctic, I’ve had ’em in the desert. They’re heat-proof, dust-proof, humidity-proof, shock-proof, g-force-proof, snow-proof, and probably waterproof too. I’ve dropped ’em on the ground and dragged ’em across the carpet trying to cause static electricity; no effect. I’ve rubbed ’em on CRT monitors, put ’em near loudspeakers, put ’em near magnets… nothing affects ’em. I’ve seen footage of them used at the South Pole, I know we had 150 of them up in the Arctic for 1100 miles from Anchorage to Nome, and I’ve seen ’em be used in Death Valley. I’ve talked to shooters from NDTV who’ve shot with ’em during monsoons in India.

[rick.pearl] “Once a video is imported from a P2 card and encoded on some format, is metadata about the camera that it was recorded on still somehow retrievable? We ae going to be using multiple HVXs and am just curious if it will track this info by serial # or some other identifier?”

The metadata records the serial number of the camera that recorded the clip, yes. The name of the manufacturer, the exact model number, and the serial number, are all embedded in the metadata. As long as you keep your original MXF files directly from the card, you’ll always have that metadata available to you.

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