[Tom Klein]

Hi Steven,

Yes, you have a big task ahead, now you have given details, Maybe if you want to use this gig to launch yourselves then cutting a loss on it is no big deal. good luck with it.
Shane’s advice is way to go for you.
Yes my Card reader tests are good so far on the Intel Macpro, I’m also testing kexts on a USB2 to P2 card reader, it will be slow but universal and cheap, that’s what the low end of the market wants, the top end get the Pana solutions.
Fuji cards are available here in oz,But I’ve heard a dealer bought the complete stock and will sell at the newer prices.

Cheers
Tom K
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[Tom Klein]

Hi Steven,
Why can’t you get enough P2 cards to shoot your gig ?, easy solution.
you don’t need self created stress when shooting.

Cheers
Tom K
olinevideo.com.au

olinevideo.com.au

[Tom Klein]

Nice and dry at the moment, temps this summer peaked at 47c (in the shade) on the day of the Black sat fires, from memory we had over 20 days straight of over 40c, I did many yarns re the heatwave for Seven.
P2 is great for dry area shoots , no head clogging heat does not effect the camera (not yet anyway), some days it got to over 55c in the sun.
Most vison I dump into the Macpro with the Amtron Reader cut small packages and send FTP direct to the networks, other larger ones I feed “Live”.
then in between all this I test many readers and play with various kexts.

Cheers
tom k
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[Tom Klein]

Hello Matthew,

yes a 2 slot P2 device (USB2 / FW800 / FW400 / esata )for under $1K would be Nirvana, I personally would buy one or even two. (I’d love to make one if time permitted)
More than that is too rich for my needs, and the needs of many other P2 users.
yes “Vic” I’m in the top LH corner, details on my site.

If you want a challenge, download Apple Xcode and try write a driver for yourself you can spend many many many hours going in circles.. It will make you apprecieate how much is in a simple apple kext driver.

Cheers
Tom K
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[Tom Klein]

Hello mathew,

I would have to disagree with you on the causes of flaky performance of the duel, I have spent many many hours on Leopard Kext files (Drivers) , and considering the duel is built to a price not a standard, it’s a wonder it works at all.
A simple $25 PC card reader in a Tiger OS PPC Mac is not an issue, BUT, when Apple went Intel/PCIe and to leopard OS, they ball game changed, apple Kexts (drivers) are very complicated and there are very few people with skills to be able to write them succesfully, there is even a 4gig Ram limit on the Pana mac P2 driver (Apple development advised me of that during my tests).
I have a working Kext set in my test Macpro with the Amtron Reader on OS10.5.6, it ingests about the same as described earlier, 32gig in about18mins.
my tests have proved it can be done at a relative cost, but the market for these products is so small manufacturers are not interested.
This argument has been well thrashed out in many forums.

I’ve found most users want a Mercedes for the cost of a Scooter, and have it “plug n play” as well, (Not going to happen).

If your budgets are there , get either of the Pana card Readers.

cheers
Tom K
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[Tom Klein]

Yes, more cost effective add-on solutions will come no doubt by third party suppliers, Pana products are great, so is the cost. with the exception of the cameras, they are a very cheap Bang for Buck solutions.

cheers
Tom K
olinevideo.com.au

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[Tom Klein]

Hello Erich,

Not exactly Hell, These still early days of P2 remind me of when we first began in Non-Linear editing back in the early 90’s, it took some time for the bugs and hardware to be sorted, we have all seen huge advances but there is still some way to go.

Cheers
TomK
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[Tom Klein]

All my tests on many various PC card readers with the PPC and Intel Mac, has led me to believe most issues are based with-in the Mac OS Software, hardware is just that, hardware , Software is ever changing, you just get a 99% stable set-up and whammo, Apple brings out another up-date instalment that promises to be more reliable/stable/useable etc.

It never ends, and is never 100% stable.

Cheers
Tom K
olinevideo.com.au

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[Tom Klein]

That can be said for many card readers of all varieties, nothing’s perfect.

Cheers
Tom K

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[Tom Klein]

Hi Jan,

Thanks for the reply, yes I try to live clean.

Jeremy, Your a legend, it works as you described, I did a test and yes your correct, I could not find a way to get the files in consecutively, My next project shortly I’ll use that method and try to get away from the unrecommended practice of Drag n Drop, (sounds like a gay exercise).
Thanks both of you for the replies.

Cheers
Tom K

olinevideo.com.au