P2 does not recognize media drive

[Shane Ross]

You have to choose the root folder…the one that contains the CONTENTS folder. Not the drive.

Shane

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[Mike Turecamo]

Hi Shane thanks for responding. I did exactly that. I copied the contents folder from the p2 card. Something just occured to me. Must the entire card be copied, all the contents? I say this because the copying was interrupted, therefore content only contained audio and video.

Thanks

Thanks

[Shane Ross]

Yup. Everything. Every folder. Without every folder, FCP won’t Log and Transfer the footage.

Now your only options are Calibrated or MXF4Mac or Raylight…third party apps that allow FCP to work with the MXF files natively.

Shane

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[Shane Ross]

WHOOPS! This is Avid! Gah gah and triple GAH!

Avid should still be able to import these files. They are MXF and Avid works with MXF. There was a time you just copied the Audio and Video files to the MXF folder and then brought them into Avid MC. I always had assistants that did that, so I am not sure how that is done now. I’ll have to test.

Sorry, I have FCP on the brain.

Shane

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[Mike Turecamo]

Thanks Shane..I’ll finish copying all the folders and see what happens

Thanks

[Mike Turecamo]

All contents copied still the same problem

Thanks

[Lindsay Simpson]

Hmm, I’m currently having a similar problem with AMA P2 import from an external drive. I have been sucessful with that workflow, copying the ENTIRE P2 card contents and telling Avid to point to the specific folder on an external drive.

Are the clips you are trying to import long/short etc? I think my current issue may be related to length of of the clips, as I basically continuously recorded a 6 hour training, replacing full P2 cards with reformated cards as one filled up. Over the lunch break I dumped 2 of my 4 cards to the external, reformatted the two cards dumped and used those to record again in the afternoon. It seems the HPX170 camera doesn’t create a separate clip on a new card but rather spans a single clip over more than one card if it’s too long. I can’t seem to get these long clips to connect to each other and I think that may be related to the AMA problem, but at this point it’s not just hte external drive, but the P2 cards read from the camera as well…ugh…

Any progress on your front?

Lindsay