[Rick Blackburn]

Hi Jeremy,

I know and use P2Formatter. Its a great little app for P2 card management. The problem is that the MSU10 does not recognize the names given by P2Formatter and they show up as NONAME on the MSU10 disk. Further once the cards are offloaded and reformatted in the MSU10 the names given to them by P2 Formatter are lost. I figure since I am using all Panasonic gear in my workflow (software and hardware) they should recognize each others protocol. The fact that the MSU10 wipes the names given to the card by P2formatter makes multiple card management pretty impossible once they are in the MSU10. I am looking for a way to preserve the name data given by P2formatter when using the MSU10.

[Rick Blackburn]

My question is why when formatting cards in camera and now more importantly with the MSU10 does the card name given with P2Formatter get wiped. Is it a MacOS thing? We just completed a verité feature (60-1 ratio) using the MSU10 and while the unit is great in all other aspects the NO NAME thing makes card management difficult when 18-22 NO NAME disk images show up at the studio for archiving. It would be great if Pana or a third-party could come up with a way to permanently name our cards so that we could treat them like magazines.

[Rick Blackburn]

We also just got this message on one clip of one card of one day of one drive (you get the idea). This is are second P2 project and we have shot hundreds of hours of P2 and this is the first data loss situation. We only use letters and numbers when naming the drives folders etc. We tried just ingesting without logging and it of course did not work. We also opened in CMS and received the message “no image”. The other clips on the card function normally so it is interesting as an anomaly. I wonder if I could send the card contents to Panasonic for analysis?