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Avid & P2 Footage
Does anyone have any experience in an XPressPro offline to an Adrenaline online in a project that involves a lot of Panasonic P2 files? This is my first encounter with P2 and the workflow path is not clear to me.
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I’ve had a couple of first and last times with P2 and Avid. It’s nothing short of a nightmare. Before you drag your files into the MXF folder on your media drives, make sure you color code them, so you can delete them later. P2 Media, in my experience doesn’t get referenced to a specific project, so you have to be really careful not to delete the media when pulling up Media Tool, due to the fact that P2 media will come up in EVERY project when Media Tool is launched.
P2 is a great idea in theory, but avid honestly doesn’t do nearly as well with P2 as final cut does, and that’s saying a lot, as i’m not a big final cut fan. I’ve learned my lesson, and will steer clear of P2 until it’s as easy to use as it is in final cut, as well as being able to mix 720 media with SD media. Until then, tread VERY lightly. it’s a pretty rough wrestling match to get it to work perfectly. It’s a shame too, ’cause for the price, P2 looks really nice.
Not sure if this helped, but hopefully it did.
Brent
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Actually, its not too bad. You mount the P2 cards in Avid and then consolidate the footage to your media drives. Once you do that, you can move the Avid Media and project anywhere you like.
I have done this on a laptop with AXP 5.7 and MCA 2.5.
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