Can you name P2 cards??
 

Hey all,

Just wondering if there's a way to name the p2 cards. As of now, I see them come up on my mac as "no name" when I mount the cards. Is there a way of naming them, say, "card1" and "card2", so I know which one is which???


Thanks,

James

after you copy the contents of the card you should always reformat it so I would assume that it will go back to being a no name again.

humm Thats lame. I guess you just gotta keep track by labeling the card itself and assigning it a slot.

James,

Of course you can name them, but getting them to come when you call them is the hard part. (grin)

Seriously though, are you not able to supply a volume name when you format the cards? If you can format them on the host system (ie Disk Utility for OSX) then you should be able to supply a volume name at that point.

I don't own a P2 camera so I don't know if you can do it in camera or not.

-gb-

You can name them when you format them in the P2 Viewer, and they will retain that name when you reformat them.

If you format them in-camera, that's when they revert to being "no-name".

So if you're on a mac theres no P2 viewer. Does HD log/P2 log keep the name like the P2 viewer? And if you're on location without a laptop and reformating it with a P2 store I guess brings it to no name again. So if I'm understanding this you gotta have a pc laptop unless P2 log or HD log does it. And that means dollars again. Cmon Panasonic give us mac users a freebie program. I mean your competition, Sony, gave free mac software for the Xdcam. And while I'm at it how about a larger hard drive in the P2 store.