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P2 Woes Spanned cards come in black
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Jeremy,
Ran the test. Shot some clips. One was a 23 minute spanned clip shot 720p 60 fps on the HPX-500. We imported it to a 1 TB FW800 shuttle drive on a G4 laptop using P2 Genie. I hooked up the drive and logged and transfered the 23 minute spanned clip to the SAN without a hitch. It played back fine running off the SAN.
I was also able to export the clip from FCP 6.0.5 as Quicktime, same as source, make self contained clip. It also worked.
My conclusion, the DIT did something to the clips when he backed up the P2 cards on location. P2 works fine with the SAN. The corruption was either introduced on location at the time of record, a bad set of P2 cards, or the DIT’s fault.
Thanks for the help and insight.
Warren
Warren Eig
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Sweet. There ya go. Good testing.
That 4GB limit is usually due to disk formatted as FAT32. There’s something to that. Those P2 files got written in a format that the Mac does not like.
By the way, use should check out Shotput to transfer your files, much more reilable and fully supported.
https://www.imagineproducts.com/ShotPut.html
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[Jeremy Garchow] “That 4GB limit is usually due to disk formatted as FAT32.”
I guess you mean the cards themselves. To clarify, the FW800 drive used to archive the card structure and bring back the data to Los Angeles from Florida was formated at Mac OS Extended. Nothing but the cards were formated as FAT 32, if that is in fact their format.
So I’m not sure why you keep referencing FAT 32 unless you are referring to the cards.
Warren
Warren Eig
O 310-470-0905email: warren@babyboompictures.com
website: https://www.babyboompictures.comhttps://babyboompictures.com/AFX_Movie2.html
https://babyboompictures.com/KnitWits_Movie.htmlEDITING REEL: https://www.babyboompictures.com/Editing_Reel.html
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[Warren Eig] “So I’m not sure why you keep referencing FAT 32 unless you are referring to the cards. “
Nope, not the cards. It’s just weird that the clips that are over 4GBs are the ones that don’t work. I have seen people (and I am not accusing you) think that they had a drive formatted osx, but it was really fat32. Obviously, the way that the files were stored on the drive and wonky. Did you use P2 Genie to ransfer those as well?
Anyway, it’s water under the bridge. Good sleuthing.
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Can confirm the drive is OS X Extended. I don’t know what the DIT used to get the files to disk. All I know is we rented the Panasonic P2 Store card reader which is USB 2.0.
I have a feeling, again, something was wonky in the way the files were transfered to the OS X Extended formatted FW 800 drive.
But at least I know it’s not the SAN, WHEW!
Warren
Warren Eig
O 310-470-0905email: warren@babyboompictures.com
website: https://www.babyboompictures.comhttps://babyboompictures.com/AFX_Movie2.html
https://babyboompictures.com/KnitWits_Movie.htmlEDITING REEL: https://www.babyboompictures.com/Editing_Reel.html
TITLE DESIGN: https://www.babyboompictures.com/Titles_Reel.html
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