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Importing p2 material from firewire drive.
I’m stumped. I am trying to import p2 footage from a firewire hard drive into fcp 5.04. We shot the footage then dumped to a firewire drive through powerbook.
Catologued each camera by contents. I seem to have all the files but i can’t import into fcp. It does not recognize files. Do i need to import file or folders instaed of p2. Do they need to be named something else.
Called Panasonic and got the forward pass to apple. what gives?Todd McMullen
Flip Flop Films
Austin
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You are running FCP 5.0.4?
David S.
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View my tutorial and see if it will help.
Please note that I say you need FCP 5.0.3 to import. That is a mistake that I will soon remedy with new VO. YOu have what you need, FCP 5.0.4.
Do you have Quicktime 7.0.3? Do you have this software from Panasonic:
https://www.finalcutpro.at/HVX200/pcdriver_mac.zip
Shane
Alokut Productions
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It sounds as if you changed the file structure away from the CONTENTS folder. FCP needs to see that in order to recognize P2 clips.
Hpoe that helps,
Jan
Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, DVCPRO, DVCPRO50, AG-DVX100
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yes, jan, I think I have changed it, but, I don’t know how. Do I need the .txt file in that folder. We took the folder off the p2 card out of the powerbook and just copied it to a hard drive. Since we had 3 cameras, we subdivided into different categories and added a dash 1 to each contents folder.
contents-1,contents-2 ,so on. but that was it. we have over 80 gigs of material so I know it is there, but I can’t get to it. Any ideas on how to retreive this footage, or is there any software that will convert.Todd McMullen
Flip Flop Films
Austin
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You might have messed things up.
You need to copy the entire contents of the P2 card over…the CONTENTS folder AND the LASTCLIP.txt file. Without the LASTCLIP.TXT file to accompany each CONTENTS folder, the footage will not import.
You should have created a new folder and put both of these into that folder, and re-named the newly created folder, NOT the contents folder.
Shane
Alokut Productions
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I talk very in depth about the P2 workflow on my HD Blog http://www.lfhd.net. I suggest you read it so you know what you will need to do in the future.
Shane
Alokut Productions
http://www.lfhd.net -
Shane,
thanks for info. It seems I can still import clips if I just have one folder called contents.How could this be. also,
how does the p2 browser work in fcp. even if i name a clip and go to the right path it doesn’t recognize as p2 clip.
also, is there a way to delete the clips out of the p2 viewer to bring up other clips.Todd McMullen
Flip Flop Films
Austin
Cinematography Forum Leader -
[todd mcmullen] “It seems I can still import clips if I just have one folder called contents.How could this be. also,”
Interesting. I haven’t been able to without that file. It was missing from one of my folders, and it turns out that my producer just forgot to copy that file.
[todd mcmullen] “how does the p2 browser work in fcp. even if i name a clip and go to the right path it doesn’t recognize as p2 clip.”
All this does is look at the information in the CONTENTS folder. The Thumbnails are all from the ICON folder and are .BMP files. All this does is show you what is on the card. You cannot change the name of any of the clips here. All you can do it either import the ones you want, or import all of them.
[todd mcmullen] “also, is there a way to delete the clips out of the p2 viewer to bring up other”
Just click on the “+” and navigate to the next CONTENTS folder. Then it will bring up the footage from there.
Shane
Alokut Productions
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Some interesting and disturbing developments in the world of p2 work flow. It seems that p2 doesn’t like anything other than a contents named folder. Once I just have
the name of a contents folder on the main root of the hard drive then it notices it. If it buried in a sub-folder then it does not recognize it a a p2 file.
So, I have 3 different folders with 8 different content folder in each that I just have to rename Contents and reposition it then it comes up as being a p2 file in fcp.
this is just nutty. I can only assume this is specific to mac only.How could it not recognize the file even if it was a different name.btw, shane , your web address sends me to hunting dogs or something.
Todd McMullen
Flip Flop Films
Austin
Cinematography Forum Leader -
You might have typed an ‘i’ instead.
Nutty? Not really. The software has a specific way of doing things and if you mess with it, it won’t work. So don’t mess with it
An Avid cannot see it’s captured footage unless the folder on the capture drive is titled OMFI. Anything else and Avid doesn’t see it.
Just don’t re-name the CONTENTS folders. Make new folders and drag CONTENTS and LASTCLIP.TXT into that.
I am working on a video tutorial on this entire process and it will be on http://www.proapptips.com very soon.
Shane
Alokut Productions
http://www.lfhd.net
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