[John Paluzzi]

I have tried just about everything. I don’t seem to have permisions to write to the P2 card from the MBP. I basically have 3 offloaded P2 cards on an external hard drive. I want to put those files back on P2 cards so I can play them in my P2 Mobile. The files are still in their original P2 wrapper on the hard drive, I just want to transfer them back to P2 card. I’m using a MBP with latest updates, Duel adapter for P2 transfer.

John

HPX-2000 w/AVC board
P2 Mobile with AVC board
MBP 10.5

[John Paluzzi]

Hey Steve,

I have tried unsuccessfully with Raylight…can you tell me the steps to export it. I’m not looking to export Quicktimes back to P2 from FCP, I’m wanting to send my archived P2 offloads back to the P2 card. Thanks.

HPX-2000 w/AVC board
P2 Mobile with AVC board
MBP 10.5

[John Paluzzi]

I have been shooting on P2 for about a year now. As mentioned, one of the most reliable solutions would probably be LTO/DLT for long-term storage. You must also take into account your budget as a LTO system will end up running you around $4K to $5K.

What I have been doing is buying CalDigit VR Firewire drives. Single enclosure external unit with 2 drives in it. I set it up as a mirrored RAID and offload my raw P2 cards directly to it. This makes 2 copies of the raw footage, one set on each drive. If a drive fails down the road, I will always have the backup.

The key to P2 is file management. I have been shooting my stills digitally since ’99, so I was used to backing up files.

The most important thing is to make sure you are using an offload program like P2 Genie or HD Logger. DO NOT DO DRAG AND DROP! This may work for a while, but eventually you will lose files since it randomly writes files and does not do a file-for-file verification of the card. Hope this helps!

John

HPX-2000 w/AVC board
P2 Mobile with AVC board
MBP 10.5

[John Paluzzi]

Yes, it did it again today. I’m using MBP OSX 10.5.2 with a Duel Adapter using HD Log Gold to offload (Dan sent me a temp version that works with 10.5.2 that doesn’t crash the system!)

Maybe that is the issue…I’ll see when the final update of HD Log comes out and try again. All the footage seems to be there, but the contents folder does not have the lock. If I go into properties, I’m able to lock it….very strange.

HPX-2000 w/AVC board
P2 Mobile with AVC board
MBP 10.5

[John Paluzzi]

Fujinon announced at NAB that they will be producing P2 cards in the near future.

HPX-2000 w/AVC board
P2 Mobile with AVC board
MBP 10.5

[John Paluzzi]

Yeah, I was just trying to avoid importing each clip into FCP and then exporting out….I don’t think you can export out of P2CM or HDLog, can you? I’ll also look into the Raylight feature….thanks!

HPX-2000 w/AVC board
P2 Mobile with AVC board
MBP 10.5

[John Paluzzi]

Yeah, P2 drivers are in too.

HPX-2000 w/AVC board
P2 Mobile with AVC board
MBP 10.5

[John Paluzzi]

I’m on 10.5.1…i’ll give it another whirl

HPX-2000 w/AVC board
P2 Mobile with AVC board
MBP 10.5