Metadata, P2CMS, P2Log Pro, LogAndTransfer, Raylight and You. A journey into the unseen.

[Arthur Aldrich]

Interesting to hear everyone’s variations on the metadata workflow.

I have setup the P2 workflow for the Iditarod since they went P2. This year they used metadata and edited mxf with FCP.

We used P2 CMS to create the metadata files. We identified the 24 checkpoints in the Scenario field, and saved 24 unique files to each shooters sd cards. In the mac finder, we named MTDT01.P2 as something more logical, like mcgrath.p2 and loaded these in to the camera.

We archived the cards each day with HD Log Pro. This allowed for consectutive card offloading and multiple destinations.

One the cards were saved, P2 CMS was used to clean up any metadata fields, like when a shooter missed a metadata change.

Art Aldrich
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In P2 CMS you can change metadata for every clip or selected clips at the same time.

Once the metadata was correct, we ran Raylight on the files.

Raylight has a cool feature where it will make bins based on the Program Name (Scenario).

This created bins for all the checkpoints automatically. Saved a lot of time in the edit!

The Raylight folder was copied from Users>Shared to the drive with the mxf files. Then the raylight folder was imported into fcp.

No need to have raylight on the other systems as long as the initial path doesn’t change.

I do find it handy though to have multiple licenses, in case I need to tweak the metadata and re-scan.

Hope this helps,