P2 Genie and FCP 5.1.2

[Shane Ross]

Well, in my experience, P2 import was BROKEN with FCP 5.1.2. They added nice bells and whistles, but broke the basic function. Read:

https://lfhd.blogspot.com/2007/01/p2-import-with-512-is-busted.html

P2 Genie is simply a must for those shooting with the HVX. Inexpensive and simplifies the whole process. I cannot recommend it enough.

Shane

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[Shane Ross]

I haven’t written anything for Ken Stone. Where did you read that?

I have a blog for all my reviews. And I do stuff for the Cow.

Shane

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[Jeremy Garchow]

Try turning off the option to remove redundant frames if you are importing footage shot in Native mode. Also, choose the encompassing folder of the contents folder and not the contents folder itself.

Jeremy

[Mrvideo]

Shane,

Sorry! There was a P2 import article on kenstone.net but that wasn’t yours. I probably errored and read it on your web site????

[Shane Ross]

You might have read both.

I also have this tutorial:

https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/page_wrapper.cgi?forumid=8&page=https://www.creativecow.net/articles/ross_shane/p2_workflow/index.html

Shane

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[Uli Plank]

Hi Shane,

I’m very curious about the subject as well. Until now (knock on wood!) I didn’t experience such problems with FCP 5.1.2. Do you work with folders first copied to the Mac or do you work straight from the camera or P2 card? I’d like to narrow down the issue.

TIA,

Uli

Author of “DVDs gestalten und produzieren”, a book on professional DVD-authoring in German.

[Michael Sacci]

I have experience this problem with a firestore. Corrupt clips when trying to import in FCP but they were fine using P2 Log.

[Shane Ross]

[Uli Plank] “Do you work with folders first copied to the Mac or do you work straight from the camera or P2 card?”

Folders copied off the cards onto hard drives. I’d NEVER import directly off the card. Well, I might, but I’d still want to back up that footage. But in this case it is footage that was backed up to an external drive using the P2 Genie. The original footage stored on a P2 Store.

I’d use FCP 5.1.2 to import and about 3/4 of the clips wouldn’t import, because FCP says they are corrupt. They aren’t. They import file using FCP 5.1.1.’

Shane

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[Bryan Roberts]

Jesus! This is worrying me. I’m about to start editing a feature that’s being shot on the HVX using a firestore at 1080/24p (well, you know, 1080/60i) which starts shooting MONDAY and didn’t even realize the changes to the P2 import function. I edited three features successfully last year using version 5.0.4 and the HVX at 720/24p without a single hitch, ever…

PS. thank you Shane for your great popsicle raid solution – I had to throw one together for the added storage requirements of the film being shot 1080 this time around instead of 720 and a huge Graid firewire scare I had on the first feature early last year which made me swear to never edit off of firewire drives again…

1. So is there any solution yet other than putting an old version of FCP back on my G5 tower!?

2. What’s the better choice to leave options open, 1080/24p or 1080/24pA? 🙂 Thanks guys…

[Shane Ross]

[Bryan R] “1. So is there any solution yet other than putting an old version of FCP back on my G5 tower!?”

Only by tossing the current version and all it’s components and reinstalling. Unfortunately that will get you to 5.1, not the nice rock steady 5.1.1. This is why I keep versions around. If you can find someone with a copy of 5.1.1 you can copy that application over. It is still your license….

So you used the Popsicle Raid idea…sweet. Officially that makes three people. The guy who designed it (Pat Sheffield), Me, and you.

Shane

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