[Jan Crittenden livingston]

Hi,

You will need to purchase the right sort of lens, like the lenses that are used on small robotic camera systems. And you can also download the manual for the AJ-RC10. Find it by going the the HPX2000 webpage and look under the accessories. Click on the RC10 and then download the Ops Manual.

Best,

Jan

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

[Jan Crittenden livingston]

Hi,

The AG-HPX500 uses a 620,000 pixel 2/3″ imager. That combined with the spatial offset offers a picture that is very close to wat a 1.1 million pixel imager might offer.

The HVX200 imager is a 520,000 pixel imager. Not sure how every one has the wrong pixel count for the HPX500 but it has been quoted on and off the internet right from the get go.

Hope this helps,

Jan

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

[Jan Crittenden livingston]

Hi,

Just found this thread this morning, have put in the notice of the issue, I checked it from a couple of different angles.

Sorry, but it should be fixed some time soon.

Best,

Jan

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

[Jan Crittenden livingston]

Hadn’t noticed that this forum was running slow, but you could go over to the HVX-HPX forum, they at least talk Panasonic there. But if you want to talk tape, this is probably the forum to hang out in.

Best,

Jan

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

[Jan Crittenden livingston]

Hi Joe,

Go to http://www.panasonic.com/p2hd and look under the download area. You will find the driver you are missing there.

Good Luck,

Jan

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

[Jan Crittenden livingston]

Tom,

If you have just been using drag and drop on your Mac, you are obviously living a clean live. 😉 This is just not a recommended practice. You should use a program that watches the transfer and verifies it. There are other programs that do this, including Raylight, Shotput, P2 Log, HD Log. Some cheaper than others. Obviously P2CMS doesn’t work they way you want it to , but these other programs might and it would be much safer.

Best,

Jan

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

[Jan Crittenden livingston]

Drag and DRop is the mostdangerous way to handle P2 files because nothing is checking the integrity of the files. You shouls use a helper program like Shotput, or P2 log or Raylight. Or even our P2CMS, which is free. But drag and drop is not the way to move files off the card, because people make mistakes.

Best,

Jan

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

[Jan Crittenden livingston]

[Helmut Kobler] “I seriously hope Panasonic takes care of this asap. P2 really needs to be rock-solid and bullet proof. People need absolute confidence that their video will transfer properly from the cards to a hard drive. There can’t be a sense of anxiety or any kind of question that the data may not be intact….”

Panasonic’s response to this is that you should be using a helper program, be it P2CMS or something else that has a verify mode. Not only does Apple say that Drag and Drop is a bad idea, it just is a bad idea. You need to have something that verifies the integrity of the media. So P2 Log Pro and Shotput come to mind as excellent programs that also do this. Additionally you should never put a P2 Card into a device that is attached to a MAC without having the Write Protect switch on.

Best regards,

Jan

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

[Jan Crittenden livingston]

Hi,

To my knowledge this is not a common problem, but I can offer a few suggestions. First uninstall the P2 Drivers, reset your preferences and then re-intall the P2 drivers. Try an import from the camera, and see if that works without corruption. Then with the PCD20. If the camera transfer has no correption, and the PCD20 does, then that does point to the PCD20. Please know that this is pretty rare.

Also, you should use some sort of helper program that has a verify mode in it to offload your card, at the minimum, P2CMS, and better would be P2 Log, Shot Put or Raylight.

Good Luck,

Jan

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

[Jan Crittenden livingston]

[Jamie LeJeune] “Can anyone out there confirm what the real, actual, official Panasonic approved method is for creating an archive of a P2 card?

I’ve read that using the Finder to copy P2 cards for archiving is a not approved, although this method does preserve the lastclip.txt file.”

Hi,

The real approved method to working with P2, especially if you are using a MAC is to offload the media from the cards. How you do this is with some sort of helper programlike the Shotput described above, or P2 Log or P2CMS. Yes P2CMS is not for everyone but it is free. I think the other programs do more and so I would probably use them even if I had to spend a little money to do so. You could also use Raylight for MAC and with this program you would be able to edit from the MXF files without the need to re-wrap with QT.

That said, the worst thing to do and the most like to invite issues is to use the finder to drag and drop, as noting is covering your backside. There is no verify in this process and that is dangerous.

You can find a detailed workflow paper at http://www.panasonic.com/p2hd and look under the resources. Actually there are a number of papers there you might find interesting.

Best,

Jan

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