Hi all,
Not a question but an answer: I figured out something that had been confusing me & I thought I'd share the answer here.
My workflow is copy P2 card to Mac > view over network on a PC with P2 Viewer > delete clips in P2 Viewer > continue editing, then archiving on Mac
For me, this is a workaround to there being no P2 Viewer on Mac. I want to backup the original P2 files but if I just delete unwanted clips directly from the Finder, I'll mess up the folder structure (i.e., lastclip.txt will no longer be valid).
What's been confusing me is that I'll often see less clips in P2 Viewer than there are clip files in the P2 folder on my hard drive. I just realized that this is because the the camera will sometimes split up a clip into two files - even when the clip doesn't span two cards. I assume this is when the clip file gets close to 4 GB. P2 Viewer is smart enough to understand this and it will show the whole clip (both files) when you click on the first clip file in the viewer.
Anyway, perhaps this will help someone out.
fh
Not a question but an answer: I figured out something that had been confusing me & I thought I'd share the answer here.
My workflow is copy P2 card to Mac > view over network on a PC with P2 Viewer > delete clips in P2 Viewer > continue editing, then archiving on Mac
For me, this is a workaround to there being no P2 Viewer on Mac. I want to backup the original P2 files but if I just delete unwanted clips directly from the Finder, I'll mess up the folder structure (i.e., lastclip.txt will no longer be valid).
What's been confusing me is that I'll often see less clips in P2 Viewer than there are clip files in the P2 folder on my hard drive. I just realized that this is because the the camera will sometimes split up a clip into two files - even when the clip doesn't span two cards. I assume this is when the clip file gets close to 4 GB. P2 Viewer is smart enough to understand this and it will show the whole clip (both files) when you click on the first clip file in the viewer.
Anyway, perhaps this will help someone out.
fh