[Connie Bottinelli]

Hi Chris,
Oh man… more and more layers of what can go wrong huh? The only equipment I have to off load P2 is my macbook pro – purchased about a year ago – 4GB ram – duel adapter – but no shotput. I experienced 3 kernel panics during log & transf before I called apple care. Don’t know what alternative I have with only one computer. I’m going to mention your experience to genuis bar tomorrow. Thanks.

Artifacts: I’m using the R “that P2 card costs how much?” series. I tried a tape last night to see if the sparkles were there. Nothing. Perfect footage. Perfect playback. It’s only showing up on the P2 cards.

HAS ANYONE HEARD OF THIS HAPPENING???
Connie

[Connie Bottinelli]

Jeremy,
Thanks for your patience and knowledge. I find myself in that place of “you don’t know what you don’t know” often these days. I’ve just added a slice to “what I know”.
Thanks,
Connie

[Connie Bottinelli]

Jeremy,
Is there a way to generate contents folder and last clip file if they are missing, and P2 cards formatted a long time ago? Are you rolling your eyes?
Connie

[Connie Bottinelli]

Jeremy,
Yes. Makes sense. THANK YOU.
Connie

[Connie Bottinelli]

Hi Jeremy,
Tell me if this is the proper order:
— The P2 cards are in a dual adaptor to my MacBookPro
— The scratch disk is set to my external hard drive
— L&T through FCP

It’s obvious that I’m a novice at this and I appreciate you help in making things crystal clear.
Connie

[Connie Bottinelli]

Hello Robert,
Yes, I’m using a MacBookPro – under 1 yr old. OS X 10.5.8. Advice on the kernal panic question was answered by Shane on my thread last week. After verify and repair permissions were done, everything was back in working order. (software was already updated) Your comment about these kernal panic situations being rare concerns me. I’ll be calling apple about it.

Camera: I did do another test record using the former frame rate and the artifacts were still there. Feeling more like a panasonic problem at this point. I was unsure because when the kernal panics occurred, the P2 cards were mounted on the macbook pro through a dual adaptor.

Thanks for the reply…or any other advice you may have.
Connie

[Connie Bottinelli]

Noah,
I won’t have access to the footage until Wednesday, but I’ll check it out in QT player. I’m not suspicious of FCP because every frame of the footage is covered with those MOVING “sparkles” when I playback right in my hvx-200. I wanted to see if it showed up on a computer so we did the L&T and it was there alright, showing up in FCP playback too, but only every 8 seconds – like a cycle of some sort – not constant like in the camera playback.

I’m thinking it’s a Panasonic issue?? Don’t know if it’s camera or P2 card or is it from my MacBook OS crashing “gray shade” when I was doing L&T with the card in a dual adaptor?? I don’t even know what company to call at this point.

Connie

[Connie Bottinelli]

thanks for the quick response, Noah. I think I left out information in my post.
1) P2 cards with project A
Used dual adaptor to L&T through FCP to external hard drive
Computer crashed with “gray shade” during L&T
Posted on Cow
Advise seemed to correct problem and L&T went fine
Formatted both cards for new shoot
2) Newly formatted P2 cards loaded to begin shooting different project B
Tested a new frame rate by shooting a few scenes
Playback in hvx200 showed sparkles all over every frame
Used P2 reader to L&T through FCP to laptop
Playback through FCP shows large white artifacts every 8 seconds

Sorry for not clarifying what footage was corrupted and when. Any ideas?
Connie

[Connie Bottinelli]

Thank you Shane and Nicole,
Great to have people out there, I’ll tell you.
Shane:
I did notice “kernal panic” in the crash report. And it looked WAY serious when that shade came down. I did the verify and repair permissions. I was able to log and transfer a different P2 card with no problem. A call in to Apple support said a whole batch of faulty video cards were installed in my model of MacBook Pro. Nice. He said it would be a logic board issue if it happens again, verifying your diagnosis. Yikes.
Nicole:
Thanks for the plan B. I was instinctively headed there if I couldn’t figure out anything else. Glad to know it was a viable alternative.

Thank you both for the suggestions and the FCP 101 language. Here’s hoping I don’t ever have to post about this again!
Connie