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Simple P2 Viewer for Mac?
I’m offloading P2 via direct connection from my HPX500 to my MacPro. In this config my four P2 cards show up as “NO NAME” drives, and it’s tough to tell which card is which until I offload them all and view the contents through the FCP import window.
Is there some simple P2 viewing software anyone recommends? I hesitate at getting Raylight simply because I only intend to use it to spot check files (and then name the folders accordingly) and I’d rather not have a background process running all the time. (Although I can also imagine getting Raylight someday as it sounds like a good rescue utility should I have P2 issues.)
P2 Log and P2 HD Log look ok, but they cost more than Raylight and I don’t need most of their features.
I know the Panasonic P2 Viewer is out for Mac but I’ve got QT 7.2 so I’m outta luck there…
Am I missing any good P2 viewing software?
-Adam
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Did you try to install P2CMS?
Noah
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If you are just going to use it to view and spotcheck the footage, the P2CMS will be fine. But I am looking at the hesitation on the Raylight and I say, hey it is the bees knees. Not having to rewrap to quicktime files and keep your MXF files along with the MetaData, would be the most perfect alternative there is.
Think about it. If you shoot 1 TB of MXF, and you want to keep this cross platform master, then when you edit you will need another TB for the QuickTimes, and these will not have the MetaData in a position that you can see or search. Fast forward a couple of years and you are now looking at 300 TBs of stuff. Where is that clip? Only the DataBase wrapped around your MetaData will know. This of course means nothing if the footage you shoot today will not be used again.
I have see how the Raylight works and it is very slick and very fast. Much faster to bring the footage in and start editing.
Anyhow the P2CMS will let you quickly review, just don’t use it to drag and drop the footage into FCP.
Best,
Jan
Jan Crittenden Livingston
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[quote] Did you try to install P2CMS? [/quote]
No, but I’m going to go find out what it is and get it! =)
Is it something I missed on my camera’s install disc?Either way, thanks!
-Adam
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I can see your point, but in my experience I rarely want every bit of footage I’ve shot sitting on my RAID, and I’m not P2 savvy enough yet to know anything aobut nuking unwanted files out of a CONTENTS directory.
I currently back up my P2 media to a packet tape drive and an external firewire, and I import only the takes & segments I require to edit with… so I do use more storage overall, but the only media taking space on my RAID is the media I’m editing with.
That being said, I do figure I’ll get Raylight eventually as it sounds like a good solution to restoring damaged P2 media files or media with missing lastclip.txt logs…
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Oohhh… P2CMS is the Panasonic P2 Viewer I was talking about, I have QT 7.2 so I can’t run it.
Rats.
Guess for now I’ll just keep adding directories to FCP, removing them, renaming the folders, and then adding them again to begin importing footage.
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What makes you say that- did you try to install it?
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No I didn’t try it.. I’d heard in other posts that it does not work, and the Panasonic download site says “7.2.0 is not supported”
https://eww.pavc.panasonic.co.jp/pro-av/sales_o/p2/cms/index.html
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[N.Adam.Smith] ”
No I didn’t try it.. I’d heard in other posts that it does not work, and the Panasonic download site says “7.2.0 is not supported”” target=”_blank”>https://eww.pavc.panasonic.co.jp/pro-av/sales_o/p2/cms/index.html”
If you want to see your images and do some metadata management it works just fine. The only place where it does not function well with 7.2 is if you were using it to directly import into FCP, without making Quicktimes. This is a temporary situation, I am sure. But for what you said you wanted to do, I think it will work. Hey if it doesn’t work, uninstall it and move on to P2 Log or Raylight.
Best,
Jan
Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, DVCPRO, DVCPRO50, AG-DVX100
Panasonic Broadcast & TV Systems -
Raylight is terrific. It saved my life when making 15 hours of timecode dubs. Before I heard about it I was looking forward to capturing 15 hours of footage to my RAID then making the tc dubs. With my archive drive with all the MXFs connected to my MBP, Raylight created a folder on the Mac with a small (I think 4k) QT file representing each MXF clip. I simply imported those small QT files with FCP, laid them out on a timeline, applied a timecode reader and played out to a DVD burner. BTW you use QT player to view any of those small QT files if that’s all you want to do. And the tech support is fast and excellent!
John
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[Jan Crittenden Livingston] ”
If you want to see your images and do some metadata management it works just fine. The only place where it does not function well with 7.2 is if you were using it to directly import into FCP, without making Quicktimes. This is a temporary situation, I am sure. But for what you said you wanted to do, I think it will work. Hey if it doesn’t work, uninstall it and move on to P2 Log or Raylight.”Ahhh… well in that case, I’ll have to give it a try.
Thanks!
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