P2 card audio import problems

[Jeremy Garchow]

Do they have any demo MXF software on the machine? Is it only the audio that cuts off or video too?

Make sure there’s not any in and out points on the footage in log and transfer.

Update fxfactory and remove perian.

[Marc Poirier]

I can’t tell you for sure, but I don’t think they have a demo software, because when we import the MXF and audio separately on the timeline, everything works, it’s only the log and transfer that are creating problems…

It only cuts the audio and not the video, and there are no in/out points set…

I will check the fx factory version… what is the perian?

thx.

Marc.

Thanks!

Marky

[Marc Poirier]

Also for you information, I have just tried with another machine,

macbook pro 2,4 ghz, 4gigs or Ram..

I have fx factory 2.0.7 (build 857)

same problem…

do we need a special plugin for that… if so, I would assume it would be for the video more than for the audio…

Thanks!

Marky

[Marc Poirier]

Oh and also, I see on different posts that people are saying to do file/import/panasonic P2..

I don’t have this option on either computer..

am I missing something?

thx.

Marc.

Thanks!

Marky

[Marc Poirier]

It works!!!

but I would like to know why?

what I’ve done is go in the preference settings from the log and transfer window, clicked on the AVCHD, changed the audio to “plain stereo”

that worked… now what is bugging me is that all preferences work.. I switched from plain audio to “stereo matrix” that worked… then went back to the “p2 plugin”, log and transfered a file and it worked…

one thing I realized though is that the codec of the captured file codec says “DVCPROHD”.. Shouldn’t it be apple prores 422?

thx..

Marc

Thanks!

Marky

[John Fishback]

If the media is DVCProHD that is what will be transferred. There is no transcode to ProRes in FCP. You can transcode AVC-Intra to ProRes. The only way to transcode DVCPro HD to ProRes is with Compressor. For most purposes editing with DVCPro HD will be fine.

John

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[Marc Poirier]

thanks for the info..

the media was actually DVCPROHD, but why does the preference only gives you the option of Apple pro res 422?

thx.

Thanks!

Marky

[John Fishback]

I’m not in front of my edit machine, but I believe the preference setting you’re referring to is only used when you L&T with AVC-Intra footage. With DVCProHD that setting is ignored.

John

MacPro 8-core 2.8GHz 8 GB RAM OS 10.5.5 QT7.5.5 Kona 3 Dual Cinema 23 ATI Radeon HD 3870, 24″ TV-Logic Monitor
ATTO ExpressSAS R380 RAID Adapter, PDE Enclosure with 8-drive 6TB RAID 5

Final Cut Studio 2 (up to date)

Pro Tools HD w SYNC IO, Yamaha DM1000, Millennia Media HV-3C, Neumann U87, Schoeps Mk41 mics, Genelec Monitors, PrimaLT ISDN

[Jenn Kisabeth]

Glad you got it figured out. I had the same problem once and it was simply because my transfer setting were different from the footage settings. 24fps vs. 30fps. Next time double check the settings to make sure they match. Just a thought.

[Marc Poirier]

What I find strange though is on my friends computer, the settings were match, and on mine (which worked), after I’ve captured everthing, I checked my settings and they were to the Matrox MXO2 settings which I had used previously to capture a Betacam Tape… so they were not even close to an HD settings..

And I think that if the settings were that important, then 1st the videos wouldn’t have been imported properly… but the fact that the audio starts and cuts at 24 seconds… One of those mistery in life 🙂

cheers,

Marc.

Thanks!

Marky