Panasonic P2 store

Dumping the store after a shoot, my director made a good point about P2 Store offloading vs. digitising - at least you get to walk away from digitising, whereas partition by partition P2 Store offload requires 30 seconds of work every 12 minutes.

Don't get me wrong - I will never voluntarily work with tape again. However I had hoped that basically the files would be ready to cut with as soon as I stopped recording them (which has gotta be coming, yeah? FCP vs .xmf? No contest....)

So Panasonic, Apple, Anders, FCP people - whoever! Please, for the love of all that's good - give me some tool, some program, some ingeniously spun code with which to automate my P2 Store offload! (And I second, third and fourth every single post on this forum begging for a Mac-happy P2 viewer.)

Otherwise, it's pretty tip-top.
 
I am unable to get my P2 Store to go into Mac Mode as show in the above mentioned book. Could it need a Firmware update?
 
Figured it out. Working now.

I tried to change modes without it being plugged into the Mac. Also it appears a Orange USB light means it is set to work with the Mac
 
The buttons are the correct ones

The buttons are the correct ones

After checking many sources I followed this procedure and the p2 capture worked, Other sources say that the third button is the start which is wrong.

Jarred got it right: the third button is "cancel"

thanks
Rergam
 
monolith said:
So Panasonic, Apple, Anders, FCP people - whoever! Please, for the love of all that's good - give me some tool, some program, some ingeniously spun code with which to automate my P2 Store offload! (And I second, third and fourth every single post on this forum begging for a Mac-happy P2 viewer.)

Otherwise, it's pretty tip-top.
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Amen, and amen. I love it, but look forward to loving it more!
 
So I have a question. My P2 store just showed up in the mail and there is some documentation about how to keep it happy (i.e. P2 store manager checks) once a week.
I was wondering if I could just use a disk utlity program to do a surface scan while it is connected to my mac. You can see all the partitions using the disk utlity and while they won't mount unless there is info. on them, a utlity like Tech Tools can at least see if all is well.
 
Orphans Intel Mac users

Orphans Intel Mac users

This is great and all ... but what about us guys who thought we were smart waiting for the Intel Macbook Pro? We don't have the slot for the P2 cards, and the P2 Store doesn't work with the new hardware (you can see the P2 card in the slot of the P2 Store but you can't access the hard drive).

What about us?

I went to the DV Expo in L.A. and talked to the Panasonic guys, and they didn't have a clue (but they did want to sell me a new $27K camera!), neither did the tech guy who helped design the P2 Store software.

Your pal,
Meat.
 
P2 store PS

P2 store PS

I got my P2 AJ-pcs060 used and it came of course without any battery or power-supply.. I guess that is because Panasonic figured the user of this HD would be using a DVX that uses th same battery and charger and the P2 Store adaptor would allow the P2 Store to run of the DVX battery charger.

But I don't have a DVX camera.

so I have been checking Ebay and they are a few dealers selling non OEM batteries that they claim will work with the DVX. I am curious, has anyone used any of these Ebay batteries for the P2 Store HD ?

Thanks,

Patrick
 
Panasomic P2 Store

Panasomic P2 Store

I read your review with great interest. I have checked the offload etc, times pretty carefully and the following is what I found and may be of interest:

Redording format: DVC PROHD 720P/24PN
P2 Card: 8 Gb
Verify switch: on

Offload time to P2 Store: 13 minutes
P2 Store Capacity: 7 Cards
HVX Recording time 8 Gb card: 20 minutes

Comments
1) With 20 minurtes shooting time and 13 minutes offload time you have to move a little too fast.
2) Steps 2 & 3 in the Operating Manual seem straight forward enough, but I fail to execute a format in 2/5 cases - it has to be repeated a few times! - not great.

Thank you for your interesting article.

David.
 
multi-camera challenges

multi-camera challenges

Thanks, Jarred and All! Very helpful and timely thread, review, pdf addendum et al.

OK, here's a live event scenario to sort for our 60gb hero. Going to a MAC probably several times daily for a quick 10-day turnaround in FCP for editorial and delivery..

Wondering if 4 HVX-200s shooting a three-day event will be possible on a single P2 store, shooting Standard Def 30P anamorphic, or whether I'll need to go with a 2nd or 3rd P2 Store. Will try to go without the verify step, and will be looking for that P2 reader utility for a MAC Pro ingest (dual-quad, 4 GB RAM). Shooting a minimum of 4 hours each per cam daily is about 1000 minutes - looks like a lot of dumping for one P2 Store tech, cam assistant.

Two P2 Stores and two techs maybe? Still sorting it all. Any tips much appreciated.

Thanks again.
 
Thanks Jared for the article. Now my 2 cents on the p2 store.

It is overpriced, under capacity, average quality, slow, and does not play well with a Mac.

I mean, come on people maybe I'm wrong, but this thing is a $1300 card reader and harddrive! I have had one for a year now and it collects while I use an older Power Book and a portable firewire 800 drive to download my media. I find this solution to be a far better solution to downloading in the field.

Anyone want to buy a slightly used and much loved P2 store (LOL)?
 
umm yes!

i'll take it....


phudsontx said:
Thanks Jared for the article. Now my 2 cents on the p2 store.

It is overpriced, under capacity, average quality, slow, and does not play well with a Mac.

I mean, come on people maybe I'm wrong, but this thing is a $1300 card reader and harddrive! I have had one for a year now and it collects while I use an older Power Book and a portable firewire 800 drive to download my media. I find this solution to be a far better solution to downloading in the field.

Anyone want to buy a slightly used and much loved P2 store (LOL)?
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I love my P2 Store.
Much better to take it in my camera bag for long hikes than lugging my laptop and potable hard drives.
 
francis2 said:
Thanks, Jarred and All! Very helpful and timely thread, review, pdf addendum et al.

OK, here's a live event scenario to sort for our 60gb hero. Going to a MAC probably several times daily for a quick 10-day turnaround in FCP for editorial and delivery..
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I would recommend a single P2 Gear and USB pocet drives. Will cost you about the same as the 2 P2 Stores and your capacity will be whatever you can hold on the USB Drives. If you have electricity available during your shoot you may even want to consider a Weibetech Silver Sata II, Make it into a Raid 1 Mirror and then you have your back up and the copy done in the same amount of time. The P2 Gear will host this set of drives but cnnot power it like it does the smaller pocket drives. However it s pretty slick that when all done, you can then hook to the computer via Firewire 800 or... Ready to edit. Add Raylight for the ingest and edit to the timeline and if you have done any metadata to presort the hours of footage you can actually start your edit being totally organized as to which footage is which.

Hope this helps,

Jan
 
Jan,

There isn't really anything that has taken the place of the P2Store. While there are plenty of viewer and editor products, like the HPM110, there hasn't been a straight reader/HDD product since the P2Store. And no upgrades.

There is no upgrade path for the P2Store, yet Panasonic continues to market it as a field recording solution. How does this make sense when card sizes have nearly surpassed the total capacity of the P2Store? Perhaps we should get a lower cost per GB 8GB card - say $200 a piece? That's $25/GB instead of the ~$50GB we're paying for 16 and 32.

Conversely, I would love to see a P2Store size device with hot-swappable 2.5" drives.

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