P2 drivers

[Aaron Smith]

did you download the drivers from the panasonic site?
https://panasonic.sixbullets.net/

also, can you open up your files from your finder in quicktime? seems like something isn’t updated correctly.

[Ashley Mcpike]

yes i downloaded the p2 driver from that website, I download the third option the one for macs then I installed all the ones that I could within the three folders and the one outside of the folder, I restarted my computer and nothing changed. Did I do something wrong with the process? Do I have to add the files to a FCP folders? And no I cannot view the P2 card MXF files in quicktime, its says its not a movie file. What do you suggest?

[Tom Brooks]

Your posts are unclear on this point: Have you done log and transfer or have you only copied P2 folders to the external drive? You must have special plugins to allow FCP to edit MXF files natively. Without those plugins, you must do Log and Transfer at some point to convert P2 data to Quicktime files.

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[Shane Ross]

#48 – Cannot view DVCPRO HD or HDV or ProRes on my computer.

Shane’s Stock Answer #48 – Cannot view DVCPRO HD, HDV or ProRes QT files on your computer.

The DVCPRO HD, HDV and ProRes codecs only comes with FCP. If your computer does not have FCP installed, it cannot view these quicktime files. It doesn’t matter if it is a Mac or PC, without FCP installed, you cannot view these files.

If you need to view ProRes material, you can download the ProRes decoder (mac and windows compatible) for ProRes

https://support.apple.com/downloads/Apple_ProRes_QuickTime_Decoder_1_0_for_Windows.

https://support.apple.com/downloads/Apple_ProRes_QuickTime_Decoder_1_0_for_Mac

If your footage was captured as DVCRO HD you can buy the Calibrated DVCPRO HD decoder:

https://www.calibratedsoftware.com/QDVCProHD.asp

HDV, XDCAM? Calibrated has you covered too:

https://www.calibratedsoftware.com/QXD.asp

If you have MXF files from a P2 camera and you need to view the footage on a computer without FCP, you can download P2CMS from Panasonic:

https://www.panasonic.com/business/provideo/p2-hd/downloads-and-updates.asp

Or you need the other party to compress the footage into a format your computer can play, like H.264.

Shane

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[Ashley Mcpike]

I have only dragged and drop all the contents folders and .txt file to the external hard drive, I was trying to avoid the process of having to got through the log and transfer process. I thought that is what the driver was for, to avoid having to log and transfer the data. My laptop views the footage fine without having to log and transfer all I have to do is import it from the external hard drive. But my desktop is the one that can’t import, it only allows me to log and transfer. I tried the driver option, but I can’t get it to work, but I might be doing this wrong. Is there a step by step process of how to download the driver and which one to choose for my G5

[John Fishback]

In FCP go to Log & Transfer in the File menu. Click on the Add Folder icon in the upper left of the L&T window. Navigate to your external drive and select the folders that contain the Contents folder and Lastclip file from each P2 card. All your clips should open in L&T (on the ledt). When you select each clip, you can play it on the right. You can set in & out points, select how many audio tracks you want, and name the clip. Click “Add Clip to Queue” to transfer the clip to your scratch drive. Now, whrn you look in the FCP browser, you’ll see the clip. FCP has transferred the MXF files from your external drive and wrapped them as a Quicktimes. If you look at your scratch drive you’ll see the QT file there.

A note: Archive the MXF files. DO NOT TRASH THEM. They are your camera masters.

John

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[Ashley Mcpike]

I know how to do the log and transfer process I just want to know what plug-in I need for my FCP to read the .MXF files and to avoid doing the log and transfer process.

[Ashley Mcpike]

I already have the P2 card footage ingested on my laptop computers, but I don’t want to have to log and transfer the footage for every other computer. What plug-in will solve this problem? I have a Mac G5 desktop what would be the best plug-in/driver to use? Once I download the software do I have to add the driver to the FCP plug-in folder?

[John Fishback]

I’m not sure what you want to do, but if it’s to use the transferred QTs from one computer on another computer, copy the qts to the other computer, then simply Import them to FCP. If you want to use the MXFs directly and avoid L&T check out Raylight for Mac https://dvfilmstore.com/raylight-for-mac.html, MXF4MAC https://mxf4mac.com/ or Calibrated Software https://www.calibratedsoftware.com/MXFImport_Mac.asp.

John

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FCS 2 (FCP 6.0.5, Comp 3.0.5, DVDSP 4.2.1, Color 1.0.3)

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[Aaron Smith]

oh i thought you had already done the log and transfer. final cut needs to transcode the mxf files to quicktime files so it can use them. log and transfer has to be done.