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January 21st, 2008, 12:02 AM
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Regular Crew
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Can I use a USB to PCMCIA Adaptor?
I am trying to stretch my budget and use a USB to PCMCIA adaptor to download P2 card footage through a $1000.00 mac laptop computer. The least inexpensive apple laptop does not have a express card slot or PCMCIA slot ( I have the Dual adaptor). Is their a way to download the footage through a firewire or USB adaptor? Where can I buy it? Thanks
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January 21st, 2008, 12:59 AM
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Other members have been trying to find out what actually works for a long time, but no one seemed to have found it yet.
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January 21st, 2008, 01:39 AM
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The only adaptors for USB that I know of are the P2 Store, the new P2 gear, and the 5 slots reader from Panasonic. All these options cost over 1000, which is way more than going for a better Mac Laptop, like a Macbook pro and a duel adapter.
My suggestion for a cheap and reliable option would be to buy a 2nd hand or refurbished Powerbook G4 with 1.5ghz or superior processor (last ones are 1.67ghz) and a PCMIA slot. This would be enough for basic DVCPRO HD editing, footage viewing and P2card dumping. This is what I'm doing, by the way.
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January 21st, 2008, 04:21 AM
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very good point Sergio. I think about that time to time.
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January 21st, 2008, 05:35 AM
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CF to PCMCIA adapters just don't have the throughput bandwidth... even transferring 2gb from a 150x CF card to a PC using one of these takes over 20minutes.
Then there is the issue of drivers/firmware and hardware/software handshakes between the cards and the HVX itself... |
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January 21st, 2008, 09:51 AM
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I am using an IBM (Lenovo) Thinkpad T60 - dual core - 2GB RAM - with PCMCIA slot - no problems previewing the P2 Clips ... and also, can copy the P2 Clips from P2 card to external USB hard-disks.
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January 21st, 2008, 11:23 AM
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It won't work.
The adapter must be a 32-bit PCI interface, and USB doesn't do that. |
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February 25th, 2008, 07:56 AM
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Do you mean it's preferable because of the transfer rate? or is there any other reasons why it has to be PCI? (Just wondering if I'm missing anything)
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February 25th, 2008, 11:20 AM
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It's the spec.
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