First problem with P2Store

[Paul Nordin]

I have the Panasonic P2Store, and have been using it regularly for the last 6 months without a hitch. However, on a shoot last week, after downloading several card images from the P2Store onto a firewire drive (with P2Genie), I discovered that one of the card volumes was missing it's "VIDEO" folder. Everything else was there but no video, and not just an empty video folder, but no video folder. It happened twice.

I've probably downloaded over a 1000 cards into the P2Store, and have never seen this before. Has anyone seen this failure before, and have an idea what the root of the problem is? I really like using the P2Store, but if it's operation is suspect, then it goes away and I'm back to downloading onto a laptop. Is it possible that the original content on the P2Card was corrupt and thus the P2Store couldn't copy it?

Any informed help would be welcome!

-Paul Nordin, DP

[VaricamLife]

It might not necessarily be the P2 Store is the thing. It could be the Store or perhaps it could be Genie. If you've been using both the entire time and now it fails, its kind of hard to know which one in particular is at fault. Another board user had the exact same problem, and he too was not sure as to where the fault lay. You can see that thread at:

http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?t=66288

Frankly though when transfering materials from one source to another, I think you always have this kind of risk. I could easily see you having the same kind of issue going to laptop (specially if you're doing it thousands of times). When that 'once in a blue moon' incident will happen, who knows, but I think there is potential for it to be there. You are dealing with digital technology afterall, and even the 'old' technologies aren't perfect, so the new ones are definitely going to be far from themselves.

Perhaps what is needed, to ensure materials go over, is a slow down in the transfer process to add a 'verficiation' scan at the end of transfer. Then you'll be given a yes or no as to whether or copy/transfer was successful. Baring that though, the onous falls on all us users to be vigilant. Maybe not ideal to some, but that may just be a reality of the technology that we have to suck it up and take. Anyway...

cheers.