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Converting P2 to Quick Time
I shot on Panasonic P2 cards. I use Log and Transfer to import them, and then add selection to the cue to export them. Unfortunately after the file is finished being added the status goes from the black squigglies to a red exclamation point. Thus I can’t finish the conversion. Any ideas why this is happening?
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#36 – One or More P2 files failed to import.
Shane’s Stock Answer #36 – “One or more clips failed to import…”
Very often in the field with this camera the camera operator will delete clips from the P2 card that they just don’t like. That is the beauty of this camera. But, the still for that video file (located in the CLIP folder in the CONTENTS folder)…the still that you see when you are in the P2 Import window…is not deleted. So you will see the image, and the name, but the video file would have been deleted.
What you can do it compare the file names in the VIDEO folder and CLIP folder and see if anything is missing. If something is, then you know what the problem is. You can then just import the rest a few at time, skipping that one.
Shane
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Are you doing one card at a time? I’ve seen this before but can’t remember what it was . You may have spanned clips that are on 2 cards. More likely what Shane said.
Jim Calahan
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We don’t erase. It happens with every clip, regardless of size. It can be 3 seconds or 12 minutes. It happens with spanned clips and clips that aren’t spanned.
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https://library.creativecow.net/articles/ross_shane/fcp_faq3.php
Look at #36. REMOVE PULLDOWN…uncheck it.
Shane
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Look at
Raylight for the MAC.
I have not used Log & Transfer in quite awhile.
Using Raylight takes seconds and you save
hard drive space and all that time Transfering. -
None of my footage is left on a P2 card, so i can’t use Raylight. This problem isn’t limited to a few files. It occurs with all 68 cards we’ve shot over the last nine months. Earlier in the year it didn’t happen when I had an editor make a trailer. I have a lot of Quick Times files from then. Since she’d charge me to convert the files from P2 to Quick Time I need to do it myself on my Final Cut Pro. From what I’m getting here I’m guessing that my Final Cut Pro preferences are corrupted.
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[Dave Lasdon] “None of my footage is left on a P2 card, so i can’t use Raylight”
Doesn’t need to be on the card. Raylight reads the native MXF files wherever they are.
Shane
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Then try trashing your prefs.
But as Shane noted.
Raylight works with P2 folders on harddrives. -
Raylight works. Thank you. But I can’t seem to view the Quick times unless the hard drive with the P2s is attached.
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Yeah…because Raylight makes reference quicktimes that point to the MXF files. Those need to be present.
This is what you do. Have one copy of the P2 files on an archive drive, or DLT tape, or however you archive. That goes on a shelf. But you need to have copies of the P2 folders on your media drive too. Either copy the entire cards over and use Raylight or MXF4QT or Calibrated, or import using FCP and that will convert to QT and put them on your media drive. Either way, you need a copy of them on your media drive.
Shane
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