Robert Ober
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[Gustavo Cavalcanti] “This is really sad… I would love to import on the road direct throw the HD…..
If some one discover what is this format please let me know…”This not a problem with the camera. You formatted the drive incorrectly. You need to copy the files from the drive to a P2 card then reformat the drive FAT(FAT32). PC’s and Mac’s will see the drive when it is FAT32.
The 300 does use FAT32.
Hope that helps,
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[Gustavo Cavalcanti] “I had read in the hpx manual that the drive is formatted in a type called S (TYPE S – “A special format that permits high-speed loading and write back of data in card unit. This is the format used by the camera.” is what the manual says… )”
I did not see that. Ok, found it in the manual. I am still waiting on my 300 so I am no expert but I suspect you need to write the files from the drive to a P2 card then reformat the external drive as FAT. As you discovered, computers cannot read S but can read FAT.
Good Luck,
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[Michael Lynch] “Rip the DVD VOB files to Quicktime using MPEG Streamclip (free program). Use the resulting files as you wish within FCP.”
Not unless there is no other way.
If you do not have capture equipment (I use a Kona LH and capture VHS to ProRes or uncompressed 422), check in your area for a transfer service that can give it to you as an uncompressed QT file on a DVD(s).
Always avoid compressed formats (except maybe ProRes or DXF) until outputting if possible. Particularly Long GOP formats like the Mpeg2 that is used for DVD.
Good Luck,
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Doesn’t the 300 use FAT32? In which case you do not need the software. The Mac can read FAT32.
The original poster needs to try the drive on a windows machine. I am betting it is somehow not being properly bus powered from the Mac.
BTW for reading NTFS, MacFuse is free and FCS 3 installs it as I recall.
Robert
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[James Fortier] “Looks Like I need some faster drives, any recommendations short of a full blown external RAID which is out of my price range right now.”
If your Mac Pro is early 2009 then you could use the Apple raid card. Otherwise you are probably going to need to do a third party raid card and external box. I use a RocketRaid on my G5. Have not done any RAID yet on my Mac Pro.
Is your array RAID 0? You need RAID O for speed. RAID 0 speed generally increases with more drives so you may want to add another drive to the array. Your speed seems abnormally slow. What drives are in the array and is OS X on a separate drive?
Take it EZ,
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[James Fortier] ”
I have some big shoots coming up and I have assured my clients that the P2 Workflow shooting AVC-Intra 100 and editing the Native AVC footage in FCP 7 is nothing to worry about so I really need to resolve this.”Hello,
Not sure why you cannot playback smoothly but there is no setting. I have posted this in another thread here and elsewhere:
If I read this correctly, you transcode to ProResHQ on ingest or when you render.
By the way you say “internal raid” . Real RAID 0 with a card? Have you run one of the test? The Aja one may still be on there site.
Good Luck,
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[Shane Ross] “Should be fine.
Copy times are 1GB per min. 16GB card offloads in 16 min.”
Very cool,
I suppose I shall heat up a few credit cards and get the 300 while they have the rebate. I suspect they are clearing out stock to go to a better or different lens. Seems like I saw something about a Canon lens coming but that may have been a different cam.
Thanks for all the help over the years in the FCP forums and now here. I even checked out your blog and I generally do not read blogs (other than FSJ).
Robert
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[Steve Eisen] “There is no removal of frames in PN mode”
Actually, according the the HPX300 manual it removes them internally before writing to the card. So they can use the same some of the same circuitry as cams that don’t do PN.
Robert
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[Shane Ross] “The Previous Apple laptops, the Powerbook G4 line, had PCMCIA slots, and the P2 cards fit right into the computers, no problem.”
So I can connect two external drives to my old TiBook, insert the P2 (will be using new E series)in the cardbus slot, and copy the files to the externals?
That would be cool!
Still scared about a tapeless workflow. Me being a no talent wannabee, not to mention somewhat of a dork.
Course to pay for the HPX300, I am going to have do real work. Thanks,
Robert
PS: Anybody list copy times? -
[Joshua Helling] “By 8bit problem do you mean that the card only supports 8bit? Not much to be done there,”
Plenty to be done there. How ’bout a quick redesign with a 10 bit chip? I suspect 10 bit chips are pretty cheap these days and you folks probably use them elsewhere.
Robert