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Duplicate P2 clips using Log and Transfer?
I came to think of one thing….
After you have offloaded your P2 cards (using HD Log or P2CMS with verify) you have at least two disks with identical folders.
If you offload to a third disk (aka your project disk) and then go for Log and Transfer on that disk, this will mean that your P2 clips now are “duplicated”, since they are rewrapped into QT files for Final Cut Pro.
So I figured that what you really can do, is to do Log and Transfer from one of your archive disks above, onto your project disk.
But then is the question – will I be able to reconnect any missing media using my archive disks? The content on the archive disk are not logged nor renamed and working with “0D23FA4” clips does not really seems tempting…
Just my thought, FWIW.
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The way I work is- archive the P2 MXF files first. That gives you one copy and one archive of your *original* media. Then log and transfer from the copies. That gives you an additional version of the media as QuickTime .MOV- technically now 3 copies. Once you start working you keep the archive MXF and the .MOVs, the copied MXF’s you can dump. If you ever lost the .MOV files, you would first need to re-log and transfer from the MXF files to .MOV. Then you could reconnect media in FCP to the newly transferred .MOV files. Just think of it as negative and workprint and you’ll get it.
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[Niklas Wikman] “But then is the question – will I be able to reconnect any missing media using my archive disks? The content on the archive disk are not logged nor renamed and working with “0D23FA4” clips does not really seems tempting… “
What do you mean by reconnect? If you use FCP to log and transfer, then the footage goes offline, when you need to restore the project all you do is open the log and and transfer window and load all of the Cards in there. Then in the browser, choose batch capture and FCP will do the rest. ti won’t matter what drive they originated from as FCP uses the Cards metadata to find the clips.
Does that make sense to you? If not I can try and explain it further. Your workflow of putting the MXFs of your project disk should not be necessary. You can log and transfer the MXFs from the archive disk and put the QTs on your project disk.
Jeremy
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Thanks Noah and Jeremy, I think I’ve got it now.
Good analogy with negativ and workprint.
On my project disk I won’t need the MXFs, only the QTs that I have Log and Transferred from one of my two archive disks. Sure enough, I could keep the MXFs on my project disk too, leaving the MXFs on three different disks, just in case… 🙂
Thanks again!
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