switch: Final Cut to Premiere – how to log and capture p2 cards

[Matthias Kastl]

again, this was not my question. what i want is to copy only the parts of the shots i like from my P2card to my hard drive (via In and Out points). so that in the end just the stuff i like is actually on my hard drive. Of course, when i save the whole P2 card on my hard drive i can then use in and out points to only import the stuff i want to Premiere. But thats not what i want, i want to select the material before i copy it to my hard drive, like i do in final cut….

[Martin Rose]

At least with Panasonic P2CMS you can export to your hard drive just the clips you want. It won’t export in to out points however.
Working with native files means a change of workflow that you will just have to get used to.
If you want to keep working the way you have, Cineform Neo might do the job

Martin

[Matthew Sonnenfeld]

I have Cineform Neo and yes, it is fantastic. But I don’t believe that there is a way to mark Ins and Outs in FirstLight. The pre-editing stuff is really more primary color grading, white balancing, framing. There is a huge quality gain though, for what it’s worth.

I was trying to find a work around for this and I was thinking maybe something in On Location? Just kinda pipe it from the absolute front end. But there doesn’t seem to be a way of actually making adjustments to P2 footage. It will play back fine but then it says that the clips are locked so it won’t add Ins or Outs or anything of the sort. Maybe I’m wrong?

On Location seemed to be the most logical place for this workflow to begin so I gave it a shot. Still worth to continue to investigating as I would like to be able to do this as well. Listening Adobe???

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