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P2 to firewire, best connection?
Excuse my obvious stupidity here, but what’s the best device to connect a P2 card to firewire on G5?
Thank you in advance,
OI
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10 Replies
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The card itself can not be connected. You need to put it in the camera or a P2 store or a panasonic AJ-PCD10P card reader, then connect the device to your G5. Another alternative is to find someone with a G4 laptop that has a PCMCIA slot and put the card in there and copy the material to an external drive. For that matter you could also do it on a PC with a PCMCIA slot. Just make sure you copy the contents folder and last clip.txt file as is, over to the drive.
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Great- thanks for the answer. My only other concern is I’ve read a few posts elsewhere about the compatbility of apple to p2. The rumbling is that apple OS doesn’t recognize p2 (i.e., failing to recognize it as external hard drive-) has that all been resolved now?
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Where did you hear this? DO you think Panasonic would make a format that doesn’t work with FCP?
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Read the “rainbow pixels” post, down below- click on “2 months” and it should be somewhere in there about apple’s incompatibility with P2
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I know what you are talking about, that problem hardly represents an incompatibility with Macs and P2 . It’s a problem where you can’t ingest into FCP straight off of the cards. You wouldn’t want to do this anyway as you need to make a copy of the card for archival purposes.
Jeremy
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I can clearly see that, for the time being, my claim to the title of Original Idiot, remains safe. But thank you anyway.
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While I do make backup copies of my P2 Cards, I haven’t had any difficulty popping them into my PowerBook G4 and importing the clips I need into FCP. And FCP made a great improvement in its most recent version (5.1.2) where the P2 import feature has been given a whole new look – letting you select edit points and convert just what you need rather than entire clips. And remember when copying the footage to a hard drive to include the text file.
(I say all this for “Original’s” benefit, not Jeremy’s.)
-Scott
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The p2 workflow takes some getting used to. I don’t know anyone who could look at the system and ‘just get it’ without doing some research, talking to friends, scouring the web or picking up a manual. You are doing exactly what you should be doing.
Idiot you are not.
Jeremy
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[dgadirector] “I haven’t had any difficulty”
Me either, but some have. I always back up the cards anyway. It’s just good mojo.
Jeremy
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