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AMA Import P2 Clips Spanned Over Multiple Cards
Hi all,
I’ve recently run into an issue with Avid AMA import of P2 media. I have roughly 2-3 two hour long segments of recording (a day long training/workshop). During recording, when card filled I replaced it without turning the camera off or stopping ‘record’ as the second card still maintained usable memory space. (I think this method is where I went wrong in the begining). Over lunch during the training I dumped 2 of my full P2 cards from the top directory onto an external harrddrive and then reformatted the cards to finish up the day’s shoot.
I had succesfully consolidated to Avid via AMA using an external drive before, but when I made the attempt to import the media on the external everything was out of whack. After quite a bit of forum searching, messing with AMA settings, restarting etc., I finally noticed a small logo on the thumbnail of some clips from this shoot (still on P2 cards) in the camera which indicated (after looking it up with Panasonic) that the clip marked with the logo was only partly recorded on that particular card.
By process of elimination I was able to succesfully link clips on two cards, but the remaining 3 must have some correlation with the cards that were dumped ot the external drive as I can’t seem to connect those with their missing halves.
Has anyone ever dealt with this conundrum before? Workflow suggestions?
My last attempt before giving up and reformatting all of my P2 cards is to dump all the cards to a single location on a single external drive in hopes that Avid AMA will fill in the gaps. If doesn’t work this time, no biggie the audio on this is crap and the whole thing recorded more for posterity than any real practical purpose, but in the future I forsee this being a possible recurring issue, hence a workflow strategy to overcome this challenge seems key!
I appreciate any and all responses,
Lindsay
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2 Replies
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I can only tell you what works for me. I dump each individual P2 card into individual folders on a hard drive. I have had 5 cards with media spanning almost all of them. The folders were named simply “Card 1”, “Card 2” etc. I do not “AMA” P2 clips – rather I turn AMA linking off and import “P2 Clips to Bin” if I want to edit immediately & directly from that hard drive.
I then create a bin with the same name to keep things simple for my simple brain. When I import card 1 contents into bin 1, the last clip will show in the bin but only have half the media. When i import card 2 into bin 2, then all my media shows up – it has succesfully spanned the cards and I have everything.
When copying, copy the entire contents of the card “as is” to the folder – then within Avid, link to the contents folder for each card. This may not be the right way or the most efficient but it works for me. I do not have a 5 bay P2 multicard reader. I have in a pinch worked straight from the cards in the camera, in the field but that limits me to 2 cards.
Ricky
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Thanks for the reply Ricky. You are spot on and I came to a similar solution myself this morning. I dumped all the remaining media on cards to an external drive. Each card was dumped into its own folder then those folders grouped into one folder. In avid I linked via AMA to the top folder holding the individual card contents and voila!
I made some feeble attempts before the above success to ‘Import P2’ but i think my system was so out of whack at that point it didn’t work, but I’ll keep that in mind for the future when I don’t necessarily have the storage space to dump an entire shoot on to one external transfer drive.
Have a great weekend and thanks for your feedback,
Lindsay
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