Importing P2 spanned files

[Shane Ross]

I believe I answered this on the Apple forums, right?

Shane

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[Christopher Shaun]

Yes, you did,

Thanks Shane

[Christopher Shaun]

Yes you did,

thank you

[Christopher Shaun]

I’m not sure if this is the best way to handle this, but here’s a step by step method that worked for me:

COPY FOLDER
PASTE FOLDER AND RENAME IT
OPEN > MUST INCLUDE LASTCLIP.TXT > THEN > GO INTO CONTENTS :
AUDIO > xxx.MFX
CLIP > xxx.XML
ICON > xxx.BMP
PROXY >
VIDEO > xxx.MXF
VOICE >

REPEAT PROCESS FOR EACH CLIP AND ENSURE IT HAS ITS OWN FOLDER W/ MATCHING LASTCLIP.TXT AND CONTENTS: AUDIO, CLIP, ICON, PROXY, VIDEO, VOICE

IN FCP
CLICK ON FILE>IMPORT>PANASONIC P2 AND IMPORT EACH FOLDER W/ INDIVIDUAL CLIP

[Shane Ross]

What? What are you doing? Sounds like you didn’t keep the original file structure intact. You GOTTA keep that original structure intact.

And if you want each clip in it’s own CONTENTS folder, then you should look into P2CMS…

Shane

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[Christopher Shaun]

Actually, that’s exactly what I did – in every respect and it worked out just fine.

[Shane Ross]

What is exactly what you did? use P2CMS?

Shane

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[Christopher Shaun]

Here’s what I did.

Copied the folder containing the spanned clip eg A
Pasted it in the same folder eg A copy
Renamed it eg B
Opened the folder
Opened CLIP > deleted all the files except the spanned file eg xxx.XML
AUDIO > deleted all the files except the spanned file eg xxx.MFX
ICON > deleted all the files except the spanned file eg xxx.BMP
PROXY >
VIDEO > deleted all the files except the spanned file eg xxx.MXF
VOICE >

Then I imported the folder eg B into FCP

I repeated the above process with each clip that was in the folder renaming the folder eg C, D etc until I had a sep folder for each clip.

And this remedied the problem and I was able to import all the footage that I shot into FCP.

As an aside I’ll watch in future when shooting the camera and try to avoid shooting over 4G IGS a take. I’ve not ever experienced this before.

[Kylie Purcell]

I don’t believe it…
Your idea worked! Ive tried everything, and this really random looking idea actually did it! I can’t believe it- thanks so much!!
Seriously I have been through all the posts so many times. Life saver!