[Arthur Luhn]

Drag the files out of the trash, click each file once (highlight) then go file>get info and on the general list uncheck the “locked” option. Trash again.

I avoid dumping stuff on the desktop by dragging directly from P2 cards to my hard drives and then eject P2 card and delete/reformat in camera.

If anyone has a better method, I’d be glad to hear it.

[Arthur Luhn]

Yes I was using just the delete key. Thank you very much.

[Arthur Luhn]

What is wrong with HD component to RCA? I have a RCA to BNC to my monitor and it looks fine. I see plenty of HD to RCA on bhphotovideo… but no HD to BNC..

Is RCA inferior?

Thanks..

[Arthur Luhn]

Check your easy setup. Is it matching the specs of your export? I would think this is the issue here- and if you do change your easy setup, don’t forget to open a new sequence AFTER that, rename it and save it and use that new sequence

[Arthur Luhn]

Yes I figured it out, I went Import>Panasonic P2>folders, the icon in the uppermost left corner of the P2 viewer.

The only other concern I have is that when I went back to reading from a P2 card, the files I retrieved from the backup ext. hard drive were still in the P2 Viewer and the content of the new P2 card was dumped on top of that, so there’s about 30 clips in the list- should that be a concern? I don’t want it to grow up to a list of 500 clips when I start backing up the cards.

Thanks..

[Arthur Luhn]

I am doing research on this- I am looking into acquiring another hard drive to back up all my P2 data as I’ve heard this virtually cuts in half or 1/3 the chances of losing data. However I was reading feedbacks on Lacie Hard Drives and some people have said they lost data during sudden power outage or disruption (even surges). Now I’m thinking of adding a power backup/ surge protector such as this:

https://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=770423&CatId=234

Is this a reasonable course of action?

Thanks..

[Arthur Luhn]

Yes I did..

I followed the procedure outlined in this link:

https://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93385

however as this was for FCP 4 and not FCP 5, I only deleted the “com.apple.FinalCutPro.plist” file. That seemed to work.

Please advise if this is not a sound method.

Thanks.

[Arthur Luhn]

Shane,

From what I read, one 4.7 GB DVD+R holds the content of a 4GB P2 card, I am using 8 GB cards.. are you? If so, what do you burn it on?

Thanks..

[Arthur Luhn]

You mean FCP>user preferences? I don’t see any settings in regard to export. Please explain further. I would appreciate it.

Thanks

FCP 5.1.4
OS X 10.4.8
G5 2.66 GhHz Dual-core Intel Xeon
Panasonic AJ-PCD20
HVX-200
1 TB Lacie
MBE v.2

[Arthur Luhn]

Thank you..

I did read about this in your handbook, and while it discusses this, it does not say how to retrieve the clips if you have to go to the archives- how do you retrieve specific footage and convert MXF to work in FCP? Do you need P2 viewer?

Speaking of which, could you please check out my post on the “idle” clips (when I try to import clips through the AJ-PCD20)- I have tried calling the panasonic folks and they are stumped. I have talked to a few other people and the best they can come up with is that the FCP software may be corrupted which, to quote Spock “does not compute” because everything was working fine right up to yesterday.

I would really appreciate any input on this.

Thanks..

FCP 5.1.4
OS X 10.4.8
G5 2.66 GhHz Dual-core Intel Xeon
Panasonic AJ-PCD20
HVX-200
1 TB Lacie
MBE v.2