Exporting my project to a P2 card

[Mark Maness]

Why not just copy the file to an external hard drive?

You can get a small Western Digital USB drive for less than $100 that will do just fine for transferring data.
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Wayne Carey
Schazam Productions
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[Chuck Purnell]

Well technically I did put the file on my 8gb thumbdrive but its still in Quicktime format. So I never tried ingesting that file into our system. I am almost positive for me to ingest footage into our server system at work, it needs to be in P2 format. Second thought, I take that back because before we switched to P2 we were using Beta SX tapes and ingesting them just fine. Now another thought would be to get another hard drive like you mentioned then format that drive to P2. I wonder if that would work but that goes back to my original thought that the original file would still be in a quicktime format unless its converted somehow to P2 format right?

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[David Roth weiss]

[Chuck Purnell] “Well technically I did put the file on my 8gb thumbdrive but its still in Quicktime format. So I never tried ingesting that file into our system. I am almost positive for me to ingest footage into our server system at work, it needs to be in P2 format.”

Chuck,

Sorry, but this isn’t making sense.

What’s the deal at work, it the server a Windows machine incapable of playing DVCProHD? If so, you can simply transcode the file to ProRes. There is a Windows decoder for Quicktime built in to the latest version of Quicktime or available standalone on the Web as a free download if the latest QT version is not installed.

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[Mark Maness]

[Chuck Purnell] “Now another thought would be to get another hard drive like you mentioned then format that drive to P2. I wonder if that would work but that goes back to my original thought that the original file would still be in a quicktime format unless its converted somehow to P2 format right? “

Nice idea… but will not work. You still have the Quicktime wrapper. You’ll need something like this to do what you need.

https://opencubetech.com/page53/XFConverter

Can you tell us more about your server? This will help us help you.

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Schazam Productions
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[Steve Eisen]

In addition to the answer I gave in the P2 forum, print to tape will work via firewire. For DV, you will get audio and video but no timecode. DVCPro HD is just a video stream. There will not be audio but you will get timecode.

If you need to get this done, you will need Raylight.

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
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Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group

[Nicole Haddock]

Do you have Adobe Premier CS 3 or 4? It’s a bit of a workaround, but you can import a self-contained quicktime file of your FCP project into Premier and then output it to an .MXF file. I can’t remember if it makes the contents folders, but it does work. I had to use this function in Premier when I was working with filmmakers on a PC with CS3 and we couldn’t figure out how to export a good looking, full res quicktime from footage shot on the HPX-500. FCP saw the folder and ingested it like a quicktime, ala the usual Log and Transfer P2. I was pretty amused that it all worked, but it does.

If you need more info, I can look at Premier and try and remember how I did it.

[Steve Eisen]

Premiere indeed creates a Contents folder.

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
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Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group

[Dennis Radeke]

If you’re using CS4, you should import your FCP project into Premiere Pro and then you’ll have independent clips being put back as MXF.