System Error - P2 Micon Error

James Webb

James Webb

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I got this message at the end of importing a bunch of files into my G5. The message, SYSTEM ERROR P2 MICON ERROR, was flashing (in red) on the camera's LCD. In FCP, I got another message something like, "One or more files failed to import because they were incomplete or corrupt".

Almost 70 clips imported successfully. Since nothing was slated, I'm not sure if everything I shot came in. Although it looks pretty much like everything. I also looked at my Capture Scratch folder and there was one file that had no duration, no info, etc. Just a filename. And it had no .mov behind it. I assume that was the problem file.

Anyway, except for that one thing, its all good.
 
Never seen that one before. Try putting the card back in the camera and viewing that file -- maybe it just needs to be "repaired" before it can be accessed? There's a file repair function in the P2 menu.
 
I imported them again. That one empty file came in correctly this time and there were no error messages. All is well.

Thanks for the tip on the repair feature. I'll keep that in mind.
 
I found the "p2 micon error" in a camera a few days ago.
If you put the setting of the frame rate in "24p", the camera sometimes gives this error, but if you put "default" on the frame rate menu, everything's ok, shooting in 24p.
 
polispol said:
I found the "p2 micon error" in a camera a few days ago.
If you put the setting of the frame rate in "24p", the camera sometimes gives this error, but if you put "default" on the frame rate menu, everything's ok, shooting in 24p.
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FYI, everything I shot was set to 480i/24PA, SQUEEZE, DVCPRO50, 'DEFAULT' FRAME RATE.

Speaking of the Frame Rate Setting, I reset all of my preset scene file settings to 480i (see above). However F1-F4 are set to "DEFAULT" frame rate while F5 & F6 are set to 24 FRAME.

The rub is, in 480i, the "FRAME RATE" setting is in blue and cannot be changed.

So what makes one 480i/24PA preset scene file (F4) default @ 24 FRAME and another 480i/24PA preset scene file (F5) default @ DEFAULT frame rate?
 
That has nothing to do with it. When a menu item is blue that means it's inactive, the words it says are NOT the settings that are currently employed. The blue words are letting you know what the setting would be IF it was active, but it isn't.

There is no "frame rate" option in 480; that option is only valid in 720.
 
You know it's funny when things are explained to you and you think to yourself, " Jeez...you idiot, you knew that." Well, that's how I feel right now :)

Thanks for the clarification.
 
System Error - P2 Micron Error

System Error - P2 Micron Error

Does anyone know what this means?

I posted this on DVInfo.net already so if you've seen this please forgive me. I really need to figure out what's wrong here before my shoot next week.

I have been using the 500 for a few weeks now and this is the first problem that I've encountered. I was offloading one of the P2 cards to a laptop in the field and it locked up the computer. Most of the files were transferred (and are working just fine after importing into Avid, thank God!) but when I put the card back in the HPX500 to try to reformat I get: System Error - P2 Micron Error, along with a flashing tally light and an audible alarm. Pulling the P2 card out and turning off the camera, then turning it back on again fixes the problem. However, there is no way to fix the P2 card that I know of. The other cards work fine and that slot appears to work fine too.

I have been very carefull to eject the cards from the OS after offloading and before simply removing it from the system, and I have been handling them very carefully - removing them after a shoot, putting them in their case, etc. Is there something that I'm missing, or do I have a bad card.

I tried formatting the cards on the PC which was suggested on the other forum. It doesn't work, it just hangs the system. It does mention an I/O error.

Is it common for a P2 card to fail this drastically practically overnight???

Looking forward to any help!
Thanks,

John
 
I've seen the Micon error when I was fooling around with the frame rate hack (specifically when trying to record 25fps from an NTSC HVX). So I figured that it was my own fault and I didn't even worry about it.

I have never, in the hundreds (if not thousands) of cards that I've shot, nor of the hundreds and hundreds of cards that my colleagues have shot, never heard of a card "going bad". I've seen one DOA card, but it was DOA out of the box. Once it starts working it doesn't "go bad", that I know of.

I have heard of a card being damaged by popping it out while it was being written to -- but not from the camera (I've done that in demos dozens and dozens of times); apparently (and I say apparently because this is third-hand) apparently it was damaged because it was being written to by a laptop, and was ejected during that process. If one was following proper procedure (as John said he was) that should never happen, because you'd always software-eject the card before physically ejecting it.
 
Thanks Jan,

Panasonic Support is really great! And they're so eager to help! Thanks for the number. I'll keep you posted.

John
 
My fist whoot with the HPX we shot over 4 hours of footage in day! There was one take that had an error and wasn't usable, but fortunately it was on room tone. Just happened one time about half way through shoot.

I was surprised to get it though, because that's never happended to me with all the HVX stuff I've shot.
 
I'm getting this same error message as I'm trying to transfer about 10 clips from a P2 card, the format is 1080p25. I usually record to a Firstore FS-100 with no problem. I Have at least once recorded a few shots to P2 and didn't have any problems capturing them at the time. I've tried numerous times, the transfer process stalls after 1 or 2%, wether I copy 1 file or all. It makes FCP crash.

I tried to copy the content of the P2 card to my hard drive, same message, copy is interrupted. Cannot stop it. What's up ? I read somewhere someone associating this problem to a SD card. I have none in the camera.

Thank you for any help, cheers,
Damien
 
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