Quick Reply, Please: P2, MiniDV and matching a JVC HDV Camera

[Adam Smith]

[Noah Kadner] “ps- if you’re sending a hard drive make sure they can take Mac OS Extended. :)”

Why is that? I generally offload straight from camera (HPX500) to an external firewire drive, and the camera formats each partition as FAT32.

Or were you thinking Uncompressed QT?

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Video Photographer / Avid & Final Cut Editor

[Jan Crittenden livingston]

If your camera formatted the drive you are fine and your drive will be universally acceptable to both MAC and PC systems. If you used your computer to offload and formatted with the MAC without making sure it was FAT32, the PCs could not read it.

Best,

Jan

Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, HPX500, HVX200, DVX100
Panasonic Broadcast & TV Systems

[D. scott Dobbie]

Thanks, Jan (and Noah). It’s good to know all that. I live in such a Mac world that I didn’t know a PC still couldn’t read a Mac-formatted drive. I thought it was all universal now. Doh!

[Michael Sacci]

Call me crazy, but I would try to rent a JVC camera and just give them the tape, even ask then to pay the extra or at least part of it. Everyone’s life would be so much better. Not to mention the footage will look similar.