import behavior change

[Craig Alan]

Here are two looks at a finder copy of the same P2 card

These are not clips in a folder. It is the contents of the P2 card – exactly how it appears in the P2 card.
The import window sees this folder exactly as it sees a P2card – it sees it as clips with metadata attached.

They appear in the import window of FC with all their metadata intact.

They even copy back to a P2 card, which then can be read by a P2 cam

The outer wrapper is different and the camera does initially show an error warning, but then it opens fine in the clip window of the camera.
Once it loads in the clip window the camera no longer has a problem with the wrapper and in fact will continue to record onto the P2 card if there is room.
In other words it rewraps it back to Panasonic’s default.

Early on I had a situation where FCP X would not read the files from a particular camera because it was shot at a frame rate not supported by FC. I copied it back to a P2 card then loaded into a P2 camera and then played out the clips SDI HD to a KIPRO. It was recorded in apple pro res 422 which of course FC could import. There I lost all metadata and clip divisions – it read now as one big clip with the date of the copy.

My concern with a FC camera archive is that it is wrapped in a way that might not be read in the future. I don’t think that panasonic will stop supporting their file structure but Apple might.

Mac Pro, macbook pro, Imacs (i7); Canon 5D Mark III/70D, Panasonic AG-HPX170/AG-HPX250P, Canon HV40, Sony Z7U/VX2000/PD170; FCP 6 certified; FCP X write professionally for a variety of media; teach video production in L.A.