Transferring p2 Cards to A Macintosh

[David Saraceno]

Perhaps I'm missing something, but does the manual explain how to mount a p2 card from the 300 on a Mac to transfer the contents?

USB driver is Windows only.

I must be missing something.

[CinemaElectronika]

David,

Yes.. It's very easy following the instructions given on page 139 on the Operating Instructions...

"Connecting to a computer in USB Device Mode"

Set the menu option PC MODE SELECT in the SYSTEM SETUP screen to USB DEVICE and set PC MODE to ON...

That's all...

I do have a MacBook Pro and it works that way via USB with no problems...

Good Luck.

Henry

[David Saraceno]

Got it with a little experimentation.

Problem was that the manual indicated only a Windows driver, but once I got the cam set up it worked like a charm.

thanks though

[Ben_B]

Use firewire. If your machine has ExpressCard slot get the duel adapter, so much faster than USB or firewire. If neither consider getting a Titanium Powerbook on Ebay (PCMCIA slot) works great for getting footage from P2 to say an external HDD in the field or wherever. Several on Ebay that are at less than $100 in bidding right now, and one buy it now for $300.

[David Saraceno]

USB2 over firewire makes sense to me.

I simply do not want to risk blown firewire ports in either cam or computer.

For the marginal increase in speed, it doesn't make sense.

hence my continued advocacy of an inexpensive single card reader from panasonic

[Noel Evans]

David, not sure if its useful to you. But I bought a win lap top with an express card slot and then a pcmcia to expresscard adapter for dumping in the field. Also added a little piece of software called shotput pro. Whole system has worked flawlessly.

I pop the card in, read with shotput and dump to local drive and external USB drive for instant backup (or to clients HDD). Then if you do have a bluray burning added, you can do an instant burn backup for archival or hand off as well. And as I work with different formats regularly that are solid state like p2, you can also use shotput for "Any HD Digital Video Media: ShotPut Pro offloads any media type including P2, AVCHD, SxS, RED ONE, and others."

I dont work for this company - and have absolutely nothing to do with them. BUT, I also bought the parent program called "TEP - Bronze" - LINK which lets me do pretty much anything I would need to, but what I love is that I can compile clips that I need add metadata and export as a new p2 volume for quick handoff. Client can stand there and say that shot, then that one, that one - and then export those and its home time for you :P

Reason I put all the added info was because it really is worthwhile. Actually Jan put me onto it awhile back. One thing I really like is that I can add so much value in addition to standard workflows.

[Lez]

My Powerbook 1.67 has been chugging along nicely for the past 3 years.. 680 cards downloaded.. no lost clips... with 3 x Lacie rugged drives I'm happy in the field for as long as the client wants... 1 week - 2 weeks etc...

Have now bought 3 more 1.67's from ebay for the kids ... redundancy for the next few years as I see it...

I think with the 64gb's cards and higher capacity... downloading in the field will soon be a story we'll tell our grand kids...

Cheers