Mac Panasonic P2 Support Updated
Nathan Beaman
A couple of days ago Panasonic released watch basically is the equivalent of the P2 Viewer (PC) software for Mac! This is good news and indication that free metadata support it’s way (crossing fingers). The P2 Contents Management Software can be found here.
Specs are here.
The software is not compatible with the Quicktime 7.2 update, in fact it is only compatible with 7.1.6. Already having upgraded to 7.2 I installed the software and took my chances. The first noticeable thing, which is also mentioned in the specs on Panasonic’s site, is that the audio levels aren’t available with QT 7.2 installed.
One cool thing about this is that you can create metadata files within it to upload to your camera. No more constructing them by hand or making them on a PC!
A little bit about what the P2 Content Management System does:
Features
This is an application program that ingests P2 contents by using PC and manages them in PC.
P2 viewer is built in and able to view P2 contents easily like the P2 Viewer.
Contents can be speedily retrieved by automatically constructing the data base by using the metadata of P2 contents at the time of ingestion.
Able to add, change and delete metadata registered in P2 contents and the data base by the simple method.
Able to handout and keep them as back ups by copying P2 contents onto HDD and Optical media.
Main Functions
Display P2 contents data
Ingest P2 contents in PC.
Retrieve metadata of P2 contents
Classification
Display and Editing of property
Viewing (playback of contents)
Display and editing of text memos
Recording and delete of voice memos
Export P2 contents data
Production of Backup data for P2 CMS format
Archive P2 contents data (moving to optical media disk)
Restore
A couple of screen grabs I made, below.
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