p2 card reader for mac pro?
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NOMADIC
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http://catalog2.panasonic.com/webap...talogId=13051&itemId=72037&surfModel=AJ-PCD20
kinda pricey for a glorified card reader .... I'd just get an old powerbook and network it via cat5 to your mac pro.
kinda pricey for a glorified card reader .... I'd just get an old powerbook and network it via cat5 to your mac pro.
There are no readers for the MacPro available other than from Panasonic.
Barry_Green
Moderator
There are dozens of slot readers for the MacPro available from companies other than Panasonic.
http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?t=137738
But if for some reason you didn't want to use a Windows laptop as a slot reader, then your choices are indeed limited to those that Panasonic offers, including the PCD20, the P2 Store, the P2 Gear, and the camera itself.
heil_cf2
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thanks barry, i just saw both of your bootcamp dvds and read the hvx book, they r awesome.r u planning to make a dvd to use 35 mm lens adapters (different kinds available) and different lens and their result.i think this will be a good one..
I want to use final cut pro to edit the footage.i have canopus edius, but i dont like it that much.what is the best shortcut way to get p2 footage to mac pro, without spending a lots of money.
I want to use final cut pro to edit the footage.i have canopus edius, but i dont like it that much.what is the best shortcut way to get p2 footage to mac pro, without spending a lots of money.
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Ted Spencer
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I just posted this in the other thread but thought I'd summarize it here.
I've got my two macs (a G5 and a PBG4) connected together successfully, but the G5 doesn't see the P2 card in the PB - just the PB's hard drive.
Any idea why?
Thanks
I've got my two macs (a G5 and a PBG4) connected together successfully, but the G5 doesn't see the P2 card in the PB - just the PB's hard drive.
Any idea why?
Thanks
Tom 4
Well-known member
Your must be using Firewire cable , and target disc mode, it can on see other mac's system drive. try ethernet.
Cheers
Tom K
Just be careful mounting and unmounting using firewire.
Barry_Green
Moderator
I did know what you meant, but frankly I'm at the point of "if it walks, talks, quacks, and acts like a duck, then by gum, it's a duck." :thumbsup:
Cheap solutions exist, people just need to be willing to embrace them.
Ted Spencer
Veteran
No, I was using Ethernet, just as the article described (aside from it being with two macs rather than mac/pc). Still puzzled as to why the PB's P2 card wasn't "seen" by the G5 when the hard drive was...
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Luis Caffesse
Admin
I wonder what the hold up is on Panasonic's end for coming out with a single card reader for Mac users? Is there just not enough demand to justify it?
Clearly they are fully committed to the P2 format, no question there.
So after all these years of P2 offerings, why do we still have to consider buying a windows laptop to dump footage?
It doesn't seem like a difficult piece of gear to put together - of course I'm probably missing something obvious.
Clearly they are fully committed to the P2 format, no question there.
So after all these years of P2 offerings, why do we still have to consider buying a windows laptop to dump footage?
It doesn't seem like a difficult piece of gear to put together - of course I'm probably missing something obvious.
Barry_Green
Moderator
There's no single card reader for Windows users either... (unless you mean for a desktop, a PCI->PCMCIA adapter... I don't know why one of those doesn't exist for Macs...)
If Panasonic were to make a single-card USB/FW reader, they'd drop the price by probably fifty cents. Look at it this way: say you hired a contractor to convert a detached garage into livable space, so you wanted to put a bathroom out there. So the contractor goes and figures out what it'll cost to dig trenches, tap into the water supply, pipe water in, plus all the trappings for cabinets and fixtures and whatnot. In your original specification you said "I want a double-sink in there." When he gives you the quote for $10,000, do you think you could say "oh, I can't afford that, so just make it a single sink and that should cut it to $5,000, right?"
Ain't gonna happen.
I've repeatedly asked for a single-slot reader, but they insist that it'd cost about the same. The expense is in the motherboard and the translation electronics from PCMCIA to USB/FW800, etc. The five slots add pennies to the cost over a single slot.
You don't. You could use a P2 Gear, a P2 Store, or a PCD20. Same as us Windows users do. And same as the Windows users who went with an ExpressCard-only laptop.
If it could be done, someone would do it. The market's big enough for Hitachi to start building P2 dockable recorders and for Fuji to start making P2-compatible cards. But for an inexpensive slot reader, my understanding is that it just can't be done. So go with a Windows laptop with PCMCIA, or get a Duel Adapter, or bite the bullet and get the PCD20. Those are the choices that are available.
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Barry_Green
Moderator
There are many choices on the market. If you like the EDIUS software, its integration with P2 is excellent and you can buy a very powerful computer for not a lot of money. Avid's new low-end program is now Media Composer, which is IIRC $2500. Then there's the Premiere Pro CS3 suite, or NewTek SpeedEdit. If you want to go high-end, all the Autodesk products are now supporting P2 natively.
Tom 4
Well-known member
Hi Ted,
Mac Help on how to connect two mac's via ethernet.---
"Connecting two computers using Ethernet
You can use an Ethernet cable to connect two Macintosh computers and share files or play network games.
Connect an Ethernet cable from the Ethernet port of one computer to the Ethernet port on the other.
Open Sharing preferences on both computers and turn on Personal File Sharing. Note the Computer Name for the computers.
On one of the computers, choose Go > Connect To Server and then click Browse.
Double-click the other computer in the window and enter your password, if necessary.
If you manually configured the TCP/IP settings for the built-in Ethernet configuration on the computer you are connecting to, you may need to enter that computer's TCP/IP address in the Connect To Server dialog.
To see or set the TCP/IP address, open Network preferences and choose your Ethernet port configuration from the Show pop-up menu (named Built-in Ethernet unless you gave it another name)."
Give it a whirl...
Cheers
Tom K
olinevideo.com.au
Mac Help on how to connect two mac's via ethernet.---
"Connecting two computers using Ethernet
You can use an Ethernet cable to connect two Macintosh computers and share files or play network games.
Connect an Ethernet cable from the Ethernet port of one computer to the Ethernet port on the other.
Open Sharing preferences on both computers and turn on Personal File Sharing. Note the Computer Name for the computers.
On one of the computers, choose Go > Connect To Server and then click Browse.
Double-click the other computer in the window and enter your password, if necessary.
If you manually configured the TCP/IP settings for the built-in Ethernet configuration on the computer you are connecting to, you may need to enter that computer's TCP/IP address in the Connect To Server dialog.
To see or set the TCP/IP address, open Network preferences and choose your Ethernet port configuration from the Show pop-up menu (named Built-in Ethernet unless you gave it another name)."
Give it a whirl...
Cheers
Tom K
olinevideo.com.au
Ted Spencer
Veteran
Yup, did all that and it works fine. It just doesn't see the P2 card. Only the system HD and any other hard drives.
Tom 4
Well-known member
Hi Ted,
Might be a permissions issue.
It's beyond my "simple logic" why we need so much security on our "own" computer systems, maybe i'm just showing my age ?, it never used to be an issue years ago , but now it seems we must be kept safe from ourselves.
You may have to dump the files into the "Drop Box" folder on your lappy , then transfer via ethernet to your desktop Mac.
Too many steps for my liking. Would'nt it good to have the Duel Systems adapter with a USB 2 , FW800 or SATA plug instead of the Expresscard plug, Oh well, just thinking out loud.
cheers
Tom K
olinevideo.com.au
Might be a permissions issue.
It's beyond my "simple logic" why we need so much security on our "own" computer systems, maybe i'm just showing my age ?, it never used to be an issue years ago , but now it seems we must be kept safe from ourselves.
You may have to dump the files into the "Drop Box" folder on your lappy , then transfer via ethernet to your desktop Mac.
Too many steps for my liking. Would'nt it good to have the Duel Systems adapter with a USB 2 , FW800 or SATA plug instead of the Expresscard plug, Oh well, just thinking out loud.
cheers
Tom K
olinevideo.com.au