I'd like to see real verification of the copies I make before I format a card. P2 Genie is a step in the right direction. We need a better way of copying files from P2 to the hard drive, and Apple's suggesstion (made elsewhere) of making disk images is not the ultimate solution.
In some paranoid checking I did with the unix cmp (compare two files) command executed from a script I did learn that there were some minor errors here and there with the copies I made, so out of 51 card loads, I did find four individual files that did not match exactly, fortunatelly those clips played fine, but this alerted me to the fact that the copies we make really need to be verified. In order to make sure everything was in good shape, I played through some of clips using HD Log (now that it's available I'd suggest P2 Log ($99) if you don't need the fancy logging capabilities of much more expensive HD Log). I did finder copies of the cards but P2Genie offers some nice extra features and simplifies the process, especialy when pressed for time in the field. I had heard so many horror stories, so I though carefully about the workflow and made sure that we always had two copies on separate hard drives of every card before formatting a card. I used a PowerBook G4 in the field to capture the media. A while back I worked on a documentary project in which we went through 51 card loads in three and a half days.
Is using your g4 Powerbook working fine for capture in the field? Anything you might have learned you can pass on? From my perspective, I'd say YES.
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