P2 Content Management Software

[Bob Woodhead]

“I guess I could always keep the QT reference files on the working drive – just in another folder besides the raw files. ”

Exactly what I do. Here’s my “template folder” structure that gets copied on every new project startup:

3D
AFX
Art
Audio
client review
Consolidated Project
Do Not Archive
DVD
encodes
FCP project
Motion
MXFs
QT refs
Raylight QTs
Reference
renders
SFX
Stills
Stock
TEMP
Text

Then I use DiskTracker to database the archives when theings go offline.

[Bill Thomas]

Good idea, Bob!

But in your list of folders, how do these 3 differ:

QT refs
Raylight QTs
Reference

Are they all reference files from Raylight?

Thanks,

Bill

[Bob Woodhead]

Are they all reference files from Raylight?

Nope;

QT refs = “output” QT ref files from FCP, etc, for input to Compressor, etc
Raylight QTs = these are the Raylights (they get archived with the project)
Reference = files from client that I might need to refer to (eg, brand guidelines)

[John Stanton]

Jeremy,

I am a very not technical writer/producer type. Just shot for six days using P2 card and P2 contents management software. I have a mac. And we added some redundancy by transfering each days footage to three external harddrives. I have one of them. Everything seems to work fine. I can click on the thumbnails and watch the clips. But is there a way to name the clips and to note what is on them? each clip has now been (what seems like) randomly assigned a number. It is making scriptwriting a very slow process. Any suggestions?

John

John Stanton, Shouldered Oar Films

[Jeremy Garchow]

[John Stanton] “Any suggestions?”

Are you using P2CMS to log the clips? If so you will need a component that will then send the pertinent information over to FCP. I like and use MXF4mac for this. This way, you can have all of your MXF files logged no matter what system you put them on, but every system must have MXF4mac.

If you don’t want to log the actual MXF files and want to rewrap the MXF to Quicktime (and then create new media) simply go to File > Log and Transfer from FCP. This will bring up a window and then you add your P2 cards to that window, then you can type in whatever clip names you want and then add it to the queue. This will create Quicktime Movies that will now be named whatever you chose.

Shane has a good tutorial on that process here:

https://library.creativecow.net/articles/ross_shane/p2fcp6.php

I have an MXF4mac tutorial here:

https://library.creativecow.net/articles/garchow_jeremy/dvc_pro_hd.php

Jeremy