using P2 cards in camera

BobDiaz said:
I also made the assumption that I could take the data from my laptop and move it back to the P2 card.
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Hey Bob, good news for you -- you can do this! Turns out I had a prerelease driver on my system. I downloaded the new driver from Panasonic's website and re-installed, and now yes -- you can copy cards onto the computer, you can copy from the computer back to the cards, you can delete files off the cards or format the cards from the computer... basically, yes, you can do exactly what you were hoping.

I've gone back in and edited my prior posts to remove the earlier statements.
 
Barry, THANK YOU!!!! :)


Maybe I should say, thank you to Panasonic too... :happy:


This had me a bit worried and I was starting to factor in the addional cost of having to upgrade EVERYTHING at the same time... OUCH.


This way, the first step isn't ideal, but has to be for my little operation.


Thanks,

Bob Diaz
 
Barry,

Do you know anything about this supposed free 4 gig card that some are reporting? AVS was throwing it in for free but isn't now. Kind of a big price break if its true and if we could expect it. Then I'd only be buying one.
 
AFAIK, that's not anything official from Panasonic; i.e., if you buy the camera-only, you get exactly that -- the camera only. As soarprod says, I would expect that it's something the dealer is offering as a bundle.
 
Page 82 of the HVX200 user manual, NONLINEAR EDITING WITH P2 CARDS, contains a brief explanation on how to edit the contents on the P2 cards while they are in the camera. Does this mean that we can use the camera as an external drive from within our NLEs and render edits,effects etc , without the P2 cards and MXF files leaving the camera? Is it possible to play back edited files directly from the P2 card while in the camera?
 
Yes you can do that. When plugged into a computer the camera shows up as an external hard disk drive (well, two drives, one for each slot). You can leave the cards in the camera and edit directly from them, presuming that you're using an editing program that supports that (FCP doesn't, but Avid and Canopus do).
 
I saw the demo for Edius broadcast. They editied the P2 card story and then after edit he wrote back the editied version to the P2 card only because they work in true MXF format. All other non linear dont know what they do with meta data.
I tried with P2 viewer you can copy a clip back to the P2 card using PC.
 
Unfortunatly, the Mac first has to convert the MXF file to quicktime. I don't believe, right now there is a way to bring the quicktime back to the MXF format. It's a oneway street with a Mac. However, as P2metoo mentioned, the Edius Broadcast NLE maintains the MXF format so you can edit in camera. This is really cool because you could then present a short 720 24p movie from the P2 in the camera.
 
I'd think you should be able to just capture to the camera through the firewire. I believe Barry mentioned that earlier. I'm really hoping this is an option... for the P2 in the camera as well as the firestore. I too am on the Mac so I hope it will be a thing.
 
You can. I haven't tried it on my Mac, since I haven't even set the Mac up yet(!) but I am 99% sure you can do this, because I can do it on my Avid system.

I think the key is that people need to turn off the thumbnail screen. When in MCR mode, turn off the thumbnails and then you'll see a blue screen reminiscent of the DVX in VCR mode. Firewire output from the computer, and input to the HVX, should show up on the LCD now, and you can press the VCR/MCR "record" buttons on top of the camera and record to the P2 card. FCP wouldn't need to convert to MXF or anything; it just has to stream out the firewire via AV/C protocol, and FCP has been able to do that since version 4.5.
 
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