Panasonic P2 quirks

[Mitch Ives]

I shot four days straight on four locations with two HVX’s and P2 cards and never once had them hold up the project. Used a Mac laptop with zero problems. Never lost a single file (80GB’s worth). P2 is addictive…

Sounds like your crew wasn’t adequately trained, and the fact that you had to buy upgrades mid-stream means you didn’t do your research first.

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
mitch@insightproductions.com

Apple Certified Trainer: Final Cut pro 5

[Michael B.]

To all:

Thanks to everybody for all the feedback and well wishes.

We’re moving forward now that my editor is back in town and he has a G4 laptop with a PCMCIA slot. He’ll be on set from this point on for whatever filming time we can afford over the next few days. This laptop method works much better than the P2 Store ever did.

Lesson learned? The PC Slot rules! And, don’t trust anybody who says they know the workflow until they can prove it.

Cheers.

Michael