Problems importing P2 files into Final Cut Pro 6.

[Noah Kadner]

What happens when you try directly from a P2 card- say via the camera.

Noah

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[Noah Schwartz]

I also tried directly from the camera and got the same thing…. nothing

[Shane Ross]

Do you have FX Factory installed?

Shane

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[Noah Schwartz]

I do. is that the problem?

[Shane Ross]

So you have FX Factory installed? Yes, that can be the issue. Unless you have the latest version, it interferes with P2 import.

https://lfhd.blogspot.com/2007/11/fcp-602-busted-p2-import-one-fix.html

Shane

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[Simon Morice]

I too am having similar problems with P2 data. I tried the FX Factory install but that doesn’t seem to have sorted things. It also won’t allow you to uninstall – I am guessing until you’ve started the trrial or bought a license.

I spoke to Panasonic at the Broadcast Expo in London yesterday as well as to some Apple people.

I tried drag and drop from Finder to the top left FC window and got a dialogue box ‘Please choose a translation document file’ which when you hit OK opens a Finder box. But which file? I then had to force FCP to close as it got into a bit of a loop looking for the translation file.

I also can’t find Panasonic P2 under the Import menu. My FCP is up to date as is Quicktime.

Tomorrow I am at a training seminar given by Larry Jordan. Guess what I’ll be asking him???

[Shane Ross]

[Simon Morice] “I tried drag and drop from Finder to the top left FC window and got a dialogue box ‘Please choose a translation document file'”

Because you cannot import the MXF files directly into FCP without something like Raylight or MXF4QT…and then you need to use proper steps.

[Simon Morice] “I also can’t find Panasonic P2 under the Import menu.”

That option has changed names. It is now FILE>LOG AND TRANSFER. Because this interface now imports more than P2….AVCHD, AVCIntra, RED.

Tell Larry I said hi!

Shane

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[Simon Morice]

Thanks Shane and I’ll pass on your greeting.

Still dumbfounded.

At the show today I was told by somebody from an Apple Solutions house that drag and drop works because FCP can work out what is needed – all part of the seven billion and eleventy three different ways Apple give us to do things. Although in this case it seems not to do anything more helpful than put FCP into a loop from which there is no graceful exit.

The message about the translation document (XML stuff?) apparently means that the codec was not properly installed. So I reninstalled it.

In fact I have reinstalled all the various P2 driver doodads I could find and have also removed the Sony SxS card driver which apparently cannot coexist (https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/193/874346) with P2 (funny that!).

After all of this Log and Transfer still fails to work.

From all the vids I have seen import should be a very simple process yet something is preventing it.

Log and Transfer continues to work fine with XDCAM yet nothing is visible for P2 data.

I thought it might be good to reinstall Quicktime (not from update but from a full download so I can roll it back if needs be) and to top off my tale of woe, from my current location in London the Apple site keeps timing out. London isn’t the same since Boris became mayor.

I am soooooo relaxed about this!

Is there a set of instructions which describe the precise requirements for what should be there and what must be removed?

There must be some conflict somewhere to give me this degree of clusterlovliness.

Regards

S

[Shane Ross]

[Simon Morice] “I was told by somebody from an Apple Solutions house that drag and drop works because FCP can work out what is needed -“

Did you tell them this was P2 footage and not QUICKTIME? Anyway, even if it WAS Quicktime, that doesn’t mean it will work. That is someone who CLEARLY doesn’t know what they are talking about.

Try to remove then reinstall FCP…and upgrade to latest version.

https://www.digitalrebellion.com/fcs_remover.htm

Shane

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[Simon Morice]

This is P2 footage copied straight from the card to an external HD not Quuicktime. There is a Contents folder with all the data in as well as a lastclip.txt file in the card folder. It plays fine in the P2 equivalent of a clip browser.

I’m now quite depressed at the thought of an entire reinstall. Everything else in Final Cut is at the latest version and is working perfectly. P2 is the only thing that won’t work.

Judging by the posts to this site there do seem to be a number of people having issues with P2.