I'm guessing this information is somewhere in this forum, but I haven't been able to find it after an hour of searching. So apologies in advance if I'm covering old ground.
I have an HPX170 that is new to me and I'm working on somewhat old technology a PowerMac G5 Quad, i.e. pre Intel, Mac. I'm using my camera as a card reader until I can get a standalone device. I'm capturing to 16 & 32 GB cards. FCP 6/Studio2. To keep things organized, I've been copying one card to my hard drive at a time.
Because I'm working with a G5, Panasonic's P2 CMS software currently downloadable from their site is not supported on my Mac as the provided download is for Intel Macs only, and mine is pre-Intel. I don't know if there was an earlier version that was supported on PreIntel Macs. If someone knows of a link to such an earlier version, I'd appreciate it. Or perhaps it would be small enough to email to me?
As the camera is new to me, until yesterday only been testing it and had not considered the following situation which occurred in the a real (i.e not a test) very long interview that consumed most of 4 cards. BTW, I'm recording in 720 24PN. While the interview was not all one take, there are files on ever card that span successive cards and the middle two cards span both the cards before and after each one respectively.
I'd begun copying the Contents folder and lastclip file of each cards to separate folders on my hard drive when I realized that I may have problems with the spanned/incomplete clips. BTW, data is still safe on the cards which have not yet been reformated but ideally I would reformat soon as I need to shoot again tomorrow.
BTW also, after reading the manual and this forum, I remain unclear as to the difference between incomplete clips and spanned clips. The manual makes nearly no reference to spanning but focuses primarily on "incomplete". SO to clarify, I'm referring to clips which, as thumbnails in the play mode of the camera LCD screen show up marked with little exclamation marks in pink squares.
If I drag the repective contents folders into the log and transfer dialogue in FCP will spanned/incomplete clips be able to marry up?
Am I making a serious error expecting that the Spanned /Incomplete clips can be married up from data copied to the hard drive?
If yes is the correct answer to my second question, how should I handle this in this case?
Or do I have no choice but to upgrade my computer so I can use the P2 CMS software to do the marrying up (assuming that it does this at all)?
Advice at your ealiest convenience would be most appreciated.
Best,
Peter
I have an HPX170 that is new to me and I'm working on somewhat old technology a PowerMac G5 Quad, i.e. pre Intel, Mac. I'm using my camera as a card reader until I can get a standalone device. I'm capturing to 16 & 32 GB cards. FCP 6/Studio2. To keep things organized, I've been copying one card to my hard drive at a time.
Because I'm working with a G5, Panasonic's P2 CMS software currently downloadable from their site is not supported on my Mac as the provided download is for Intel Macs only, and mine is pre-Intel. I don't know if there was an earlier version that was supported on PreIntel Macs. If someone knows of a link to such an earlier version, I'd appreciate it. Or perhaps it would be small enough to email to me?
As the camera is new to me, until yesterday only been testing it and had not considered the following situation which occurred in the a real (i.e not a test) very long interview that consumed most of 4 cards. BTW, I'm recording in 720 24PN. While the interview was not all one take, there are files on ever card that span successive cards and the middle two cards span both the cards before and after each one respectively.
I'd begun copying the Contents folder and lastclip file of each cards to separate folders on my hard drive when I realized that I may have problems with the spanned/incomplete clips. BTW, data is still safe on the cards which have not yet been reformated but ideally I would reformat soon as I need to shoot again tomorrow.
BTW also, after reading the manual and this forum, I remain unclear as to the difference between incomplete clips and spanned clips. The manual makes nearly no reference to spanning but focuses primarily on "incomplete". SO to clarify, I'm referring to clips which, as thumbnails in the play mode of the camera LCD screen show up marked with little exclamation marks in pink squares.
If I drag the repective contents folders into the log and transfer dialogue in FCP will spanned/incomplete clips be able to marry up?
Am I making a serious error expecting that the Spanned /Incomplete clips can be married up from data copied to the hard drive?
If yes is the correct answer to my second question, how should I handle this in this case?
Or do I have no choice but to upgrade my computer so I can use the P2 CMS software to do the marrying up (assuming that it does this at all)?
Advice at your ealiest convenience would be most appreciated.
Best,
Peter
