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Importing footage copied from P2 card; first time caller, long time listener
Hello all,
I have been actively following this and other boards and all the sites ever since the hvx was first announced, i finally had an opportunity to shoot something (an interview) with one, belonging to a friend, today and now am having some trouble getting the footage into Final Cut Pro…
I copied the six folders (audio, clip, icon,proxy,video and voice) from each P2 card into it’s own folder on my laptop, these folders were then burned to a DVD each (4gb P2 card=1 DVD)…now, back at home, these folders were copied to my main workstation….I cannot get final cut to open the files, I am doing import>Panasonic P2 but it won’t recognize my folder saying “select path does not contain a P2 volume”
I suspect this might have something to do with the fact that I renamed the folder and did not copy the other individual file over from the P2 card that was in the main directory….the p2 cards have since been formatted
am i totally up a creek here? i was so excited to use the camera, but am kinda bummed out now….
side question, since i only have 2 4gb cards I am trying to maximize my recordable time….can I record an interview, with sound, in 24pn or 30pn mode and, well, have the sound? this would allow 2.5x more time which i could really use…
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You really need to view my P2 Workflow Tutorial. This explains EXACTLY how to copy footage from the P2 cards correctly, so that it all works. Because the way you did it was incorrect.
You need to take the entire CONTENTS folder and LASTCLIP.txt file…both IN FULL…and drop them into folders that you name.
But all is not lost. All you need to do is rename the folders you have containing the files to CONTENTS (exactly, not CONTENTS_1, or CONTENTS1)…then it should work.
Shane
Alokut Productions
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Yes, you can shoot interviews in 24pn with sound- and you will get much more record time per P2 card- approximately 2.5 minutes per gigabyte.
Bill
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thanks for the replies…in regrads to getting FCP to recognize the data, i did the rename thing, and even found an article describing how to recreate the lastclip.txt file, which i did, and now i can get to the step in FCP where i can see the thumbnails, but when i go to import it tells me there is an error and my files mght be corrupt….
I have used the demo version of HD Log to open the files, the video/sound is all there, looks great, but i can not export a video file with the demo version,..
I did find your workflow, but about an hour too late!
any suggestions? is Avid Xpress Pro an option here? read somewhere it can read the raw mxf files…
please help! thanks so much
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Try your files one at a time.
Sometimes the camera op will delete one clip in the field, but the picture that represents that clip is still on the card, so you will see it in the import window. Best thing to do is compare the contents of the VIDEO folder and CLIP folder and see if they match up.
But doing one at a time might locate problem clips as well.
Shane
Littlefrog Post
http://www.lfhd.net -
i have tried to do them one at a time but it still doesn’t seem to be working….maybe it has something to do with the fact that i continuously recorded from one card to the other…
i did not delete any clips on the card…
there are 3 files in total …first card has one small clip, then the long one,…..second card just has one big one….the two biggies are the one continuous clip…thanks for the tips, any more?
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