David S.
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[john sharaf] “Jan, you’re the only voice out there who’s privy to all this, what’s up?”
I’m not Jan, but there are solutions in the works.
https://www.duel-systems.com/products/adapters.aspx
You can always get a standard PB with card bus.
David S.
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Do you ever get a break from all this?
In any case, your feedback would be appreciated.
Thanks
David S.
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Thanks Jan.
I elected import P2 card, and navigate to the card and chose open.
I got three icons that had thumbnails.
Elected to import all, and received a message that the files are either incomplete or corrupt.
This Dan Parsons’ stuff including green screen downloaded from a link at dvxuser.com, Jarred’s site.
Downloaded it twice. It’s 400 megabytes, and it unzips without an issue.
Just won’t import after showing thumbnails with those icons and that error message.
David S.
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This on Express Cards from another forum:
“ExpressCard Slot
Over the long run, another new feature of the MacBook Pro – its ExpressCard/34 expansion slot – might provide a solution to the modem problem, in addition to supporting other interesting options, but in the short run it’s not likely to be much use to anyone. ExpressCard is an industry standard that was first introduced a couple of years ago as a higher-performance successor to the original PCMCIA format and the subsequent CardBus standard for adding hardware to laptops. It’s based on a combination of USB 2.0 and PCI Express connection technologies. The standard defines two physical formats, one 54 mm wide and the other 34 mm wide. Apple has chosen to implement only the 34-mm (1.34-inch) version.
The problem is that no one is yet making modems – or for that matter much of anything else – in this format, even though the standard was finalized more than two years ago. Only a handful of cards, none of them modems, are listed at the official ExpressCard site, and so far there’s no mention there of Mac compatibility. After a Google search turned up no leads, I went directly to the Web sites of Pretec and Socket Communications, both of which make CompactFlash and SDIO (Secure Digital) card modems, but neither had any ExpressCard products listed.
On the Expo floor, a few prototype ExpressCards were on display, under glass, at the Belkin booth, but there were no modems among them; the only ExpressCard/34 options were FireWire 400, Gigabit Ethernet, and a reader/writer for small flash-memory cards. (Those cards, as well as a SATA II RAID card in the larger ExpressCard/54 format, are scheduled to ship in March; prices haven’t been set.).”
David S.
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[gary adcock] “that would be a little late as I am testing the cards on a new MB tomorrow before the show opens.
see everyone at the FCPUG meeting tomorrow night.”
Thanks for ruining my Christmas Gary.
Jan, please ignore Gary’s post.
🙂
David S.
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[Luis Caffesse] “Panasonic is trying to push this as a ‘professional’ camera.”
I guess the old adage obtains, “the proof of the pudding is in the eating.”
If the HVX200 performs with the picture quality I hope for, then I don’t understand what the concern is.
The CCD Chip stinks, but wow, what fabulous footage . . . I’m certain what the point is.
When I and others eventually can report objectively on quality, that’s all that matters to me.
If ain’t chips to objectively be a professional camera, but the quality is there, are you going to ignore it?
David S.
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That’s the concern.
There are no USB adapters that are 32-bit to accept these cards.
If you are rotating 4GB P2 cards to a PB, no cost effective USB or Firewire solutions exists to keep the camera rolling.
At least with the new Intel PBs
David S.
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[George] “I have to say that the more I learn or in this case don’t learn about this camera the less I like it.”
I understand your concern, but more interested in how the camera performs, and what the video quality is, workflow, and the like.
The analogy makes sense at first blush, but the car performs as you want, who the heck cares what’s under the hood.
David S.
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[Ron Shook] “Jan is a tremendous resource for both us and her company and Panasonic gains a large measure in my eyes from the fact that her efforts go to some degree unchecked by weeny attorneys.”
Hey Ron.
I am an attorney.
Although I’m not one of those “weeney” ones. I’m an “unweeney” attorney.
🙂
take care
David S.
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[Jan Crittenden Livingston] “It was on the card, not even in the MAC, but in the camera where it was showing no space to record. Gary and I are having a background conversation and we will come back to this later today or maybe tomorrow after a few more trials.
Best,
Jan”
I appreciate these efforts.
It’s a workflow issue that concerned me from day one when shooting anything but DV. Then, of course, why acquire the camera if you are just shooting DV.
It also figures on whether you go with FireStore, pony up for 8Gb p2 cards, etc.
Jan, when you were reformating in the Mac, were you using the Disk Utility?
Thanks
David S.