P2 viewer viewing files stored other than P2 cards

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c3kings

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Dear All,
I am wondering if P2 Viewer can view the MXF files that I store in my hard drives. I cannot do it. I can only view the files in P2 cards. Is it normal, or I miss some settings?
Thanks.
King
 
Yes you can do that. The part you're missing is "virtual P2 cards". Set up your bins to show them, then assign them. Read the P2 Viewer manual that gets installed where you installed the P2 Viewer program and it'll explain everything.
 
Barry_Green said:
Yes you can do that. The part you're missing is "virtual P2 cards". Set up your bins to show them, then assign them. Read the P2 Viewer manual that gets installed where you installed the P2 Viewer program and it'll explain everything.
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Barry, thank you for your reply. But I cannot find the manual. I pull down Help menu from the P2 Viewer software, but I get only About P2 Viewer...
Is there any link I can get the manual?
By the way, I set a Virtual P2 Card in one of my HDD. Then it creates a Contents folder and its sub-folders automatically, just same as the ones in P2 card. Then I put some a video clip to its Video folder and put the other four audio clips accordingly to the Audio folder. I chose Primary Bin to All Virtual P2 Cards, yet I don't see any clip in the View.
Please help.
Thanks.
King
 
Try starting at "My Computer" and browse on your system hard disk drive (usually C ) to: Program Files\Panasonic P2\Viewer\Manual

The part relevant to your post is "Setting Virtual P2 Cards." You use this process to point your P2 Viewer to where you have stored the P2 files. They have to be in the same structure (CONTENTS folder alongside LASTCLIP; within CONTENTS are the other six folders).
 
bherr said:
Try starting at "My Computer" and browse on your system hard disk drive (usually C ) to: Program Files\Panasonic P2\Viewer\Manual

The part relevant to your post is "Setting Virtual P2 Cards." You use this process to point your P2 Viewer to where you have stored the P2 files. They have to be in the same structure (CONTENTS folder alongside LASTCLIP; within CONTENTS are the other six folders).
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Thanks, bherr. I found the manual now. However, I still don't know how to view the files in my computre. By the way, what do mean "CONTENTS folder alongside LASTCLIP?"
 
I just tried this.

Here's what I did:

Open p2 viewer.
On the top left, where it says "All P2 cards", right click. You will have the option to select "all virtual cards". Do that.

The go to "tool" in the menu bar, and select "setting virtual p2 card".

Then a little window will come up. You have 4 icons towards the top right of this window. The left most of those four is the one you want to click.

Then you will get another window that will allow you to navigate your HDD's to where you have your p2 cards stored. You are navigating up to the "contents" folder. Not into it. If you look at the directory structure of a p2 card, you will see that at the root, there is a contents folder and a lastclip.txt

You want to navigate up to the contents folder. So, if you just offloaded a p2 card straight to your C drive. You would just navigate to your c: drive, and click ok. When you go back to the p2 viewer window, you'll see whatever clips right there. If you have a card stored in H:/p2 cards/card01/ then that is where you would navigate to.

Does that make sense? Once you have set up the directory structure, you can select it as you did the first step. Right click p2 cards, or "all virtual cards", and you will have the other of these options, as well as whatever virtual cards you have set up.

Later,
Jason
 
Jason Ramsey said:
I just tried this.

Here's what I did:

Open p2 viewer.
On the top left, where it says "All P2 cards", right click. You will have the option to select "all virtual cards". Do that.

The go to "tool" in the menu bar, and select "setting virtual p2 card".

Then a little window will come up. You have 4 icons towards the top right of this window. The left most of those four is the one you want to click.

Then you will get another window that will allow you to navigate your HDD's to where you have your p2 cards stored. You are navigating up to the "contents" folder. Not into it. If you look at the directory structure of a p2 card, you will see that at the root, there is a contents folder and a lastclip.txt

You want to navigate up to the contents folder. So, if you just offloaded a p2 card straight to your C drive. You would just navigate to your c: drive, and click ok. When you go back to the p2 viewer window, you'll see whatever clips right there. If you have a card stored in H:/p2 cards/card01/ then that is where you would navigate to.

Does that make sense? Once you have set up the directory structure, you can select it as you did the first step. Right click p2 cards, or "all virtual cards", and you will have the other of these options, as well as whatever virtual cards you have set up.

Later,
Jason
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Thanks, Jason.
I did follow all your steps. However, I still cannot see the clips.
I think I misunderstand something here. What actually the function for setting "virtual cards?"
My reason to post this thread is that I have already moved the files from P2 card to my HDD by "copy and paste" between browsers. But I would like to view the files from my HDD on location after I transfer it to the laptop from P2 cards. How can I do this?
I think I messed up my point a little bit. Sorry about this.
Thanks.
King
 
"Setting Virtual P2 Cards" is Panasonic's idea of specifying a folder that contains the contents of a P2 card in a location other than on the card itself.

You need to browse to the folder that containts the CONTENTS folder and LASTCLIP.TXT file that you copied from the P2 card.

Once you have done that, you can use View -> Show The Primary Bin or View -> Show the Secondary Bin and select one of the virtual P2 cards you have defined.
 
Can not Play clips in Virtual P2 card viewer

Can not Play clips in Virtual P2 card viewer

Hey guys,

I just read this thread and I'm at the point where I can see all the clips in my external HD, but I can not get them to play.

When I click the files on the Left, they pop up on Right. I click them, I hit Play, but nothing.

Any suggestions?

Ron

DJonCable@Yahoo.com :Drogar-Sick(DBG):
 
What are your system specs? The P2 Viewer software requires the SSE2 instruction set extensions, so it will not run on some older systems with early AMD Athlon or Intel Pentium III processors.
 
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