Minimum System Requirements for Transfering P2 to Laptop

sick boy

sick boy

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Hey guys,

Quick question, what would you say the minimum requirements for a laptop to just transfer footage (not view) from the p2 through a laptop cardbus?

I just got a dell inspiron with a celeron 800mhz cpu, 4mb video, gonna upgrade system memory to 512mb, just have the basics installed, very bare system, just to surf net and use Word. I figure this should work fine since all you are pretty much doing is just transfering data from one storage device to another, it just may be slower on a slower cpu, which is not that big of a deal for me right now. I am also going to use a usb 2.0 pc card to access the external hd, so maybe the carbus bus may be able to do a 180 not having to go through the entire system bus. This is probably not true since it looks like they fixed this issue in the express34 systems, where the bus is connected directly to memory, making the datapath shorter with less stops.

What do you guys think?
 
I agree with Kholi, your system should be fine for the purpose of offloading P2 cards and dumping them to the internal or an external drive.

However, since the old Celerons don't have the SSE2 instruction set extensions, you won't be able to use P2 Viewer to view the card contents -- you'll have to do all your work blind.
 
cool, ya, I got the laptop for $50, cant complain. As much as being able to see my footage on set, I have been working with tape for so long, I am used to not seeing the footage since I dont like risking overlaping and lossing footage. Also I have a fs-100 for nearly everything else, the p2 cards would just be for hard to get shots with the cumbersome firestore.

Now, to see what the 16gb cards are going to be priced at and now we got something to talk about woo!
 
To be honest... (off topic)

16gb cards sound nice in conjunction with Barry's words on cutting directly from a P2 card being faster... however... I think that 8gb's are a bit more on the mark as far as storage goes. If you're using Dual Layer DVD's... burning each offloaded card to a DVD sounds like a very effecient way of archival--

At least until you get into Blu Ray Storage burning, and yet this medium will take a handful'a years to become universal.
 
If DVDs are your primary archive format, then I'd say go with 4GB P2 cards.

Single-layer DVDs can be written at higher speeds than their dual-layer brethren, and I would trust a single layer disk much more in terms of long-term durability and readability.
 
Very good point. The underlying issue with 4gb card would be, of course, record times. But for archival, I suppose the actual method of archival becomes more important than recording times.

Sigh-- Can't wait til Blu Ray burners drop in price. Scratch Resistant sounds very nice.
 
The scratch protection of Blu-Ray disks was developed by TDK and has been available for years on CDs and DVDs marketed under the "TDK Armor Plated" label.

I've not used the DVDs, but I've used the CDs. A friend of mine is a dance teacher, and she frequently killed the CDs shes uses while teaching due to scratches resulting from rough handling. I got tired of fixing her CDs using a "Skip Doctor" and started to copy the disks onto the "TDK Armor Plated" CDs after fixing the originals. The disks still show signs of rough handling, but not one of them has come back to me as being unreadable or skipping,
 
Thats a good point, I have the free 8gb p2 on the way, I will probably throw that up on ebay and use that cash to buy two 4gb p2s, a)for workflow incase I need to swap out a card while filming, b)I might make somemoney on the deal since I expect to see 4gb cards to go cheap on ebay and 3)4gb cards will fit nicely onto the dvds, which means no software needed to take large folders and split them up into compressed chunks over mutiple dvds.

Blue ray though, ohh ya, when those come down, I am all over it, the form factor is what I want, cds, dvds, hd dvds, they are all the same size, I like it in Johnny Mnemonic, when the little cds, blue ray is pretty close to this (plus I want the hard drive space upgrade for my brain, no more thumb drives!)

What kills me is that microsoft sells an external hddvd drive for the xbox 360 for $200, to bad the ps3 has blue ray built in, they would make so much money off of externals
 
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