P2 card to Premiere

[Ryan Holmes]

Use the Media Browser built into Premiere Proto to navigate to your footage. It should parse the folder structure, recognize it’s P2 footage and show you the files (not the whole card). Then you can just drag and drop those files into your project without any problems.

I’m assuming you’re running CS5 or later (CS5.5 or CS6). Otherwise, I’m not confident the above approach will work.

Ryan Holmes
http://www.ryanholmes.me
@CutColorPost

[Greg Leslie]

You can also browse the card in Prelude and use it to transcode and ingest selected clips or pieces of clips.

[Dave Rawson]

I get that you can preview the clips in media browswer…however I’m not able to bring in one clip with audio attached. The only way I’ve been able to include audio is if I drag the entire contents folder in to my project folder.
You’re not talking about just importing straight from the P2 card in to Premiere, right? I don’t want to work off the card. I need the media in my poject folder which is in an external drive.

[Ryan Holmes]

In order for PPro’s Media Browser to see everything you should’ve copied the P2 card to your storage device exactly as it appears on the card.

If I just point the Media Browser at the folder for a given solid-state camera, PPro will parse the xml contained in the folder structure and show me just the files playable from the card. Admittedly I’ve had some problems crop up along the way….but it usually works pretty good.

The other approach is to do what Greg recommended – bring the files into Prelude and transcode to another format (DNxHD, ProRes, etc.) and then bring that newly transcoded file into PPro. That’s been my workaround on the few occasions where it’s hung in PPro.

Ryan Holmes
http://www.ryanholmes.me
@CutColorPost