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Tranferring P2 Card to Adobe Premiere CC
I have a Panasonic AG HVX-200P and recently switched from Final Cut to Adobe Premiere CC. How do I import my P2 files into Adobe Premiere? My camera isn’t even recognized when I hook up the firewire 800 cable to my Macbook. The camera says 1395 Device Disconnected. 1394 Host mode does not work either as per the instructions of the camera manual. Do I need to convert the MXF files to a recognizable format for Premiere? Why can’t I just run my DV cable to the macbook and have it show up as an external hard drive? In final cut we had to go DV to firewire 400 into an external hard drive. Then firewire 400 out of the external to firewire 800 into the macbook and then we could import the video files and it converted them to quicktime.
Someone help…….I just want to plug my Panasonic HVX into my computer and import the video. What is my procedure?
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If you the camera doesn’t show up to the desktop to a mounted volume…
that would be your first issue…once that happens….if you copy the card contents (whole folder structure) to a folder on you computer….
you can use the Media Prose Panel to navigate to that folder on your machine….and PPro should recognize the files natively and allow you to drag them into the project panel and start editing…no conversion necessary…
Alex
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It has been some time but I believe you must connect the HVX to Mac using USB, not Firewire.
Bob Fiori
Croma-Video Inc,
Collegeville, PA 19426Mac Pro, 3GHz, Dual Quad Core, 8gb Ram
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I think Bob is right and then you have to use a menu setting to tell the camera to act like a hard drive.
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USB connection for Windows PC’s, 1394 for Macs. See pages 77 and 78 in the manual.
With Macs the computer needs to be on before connecting or it may not be recognized. Hibernation can also drop the connection.
If you do not have the manual a PDF version is available: https://service.us.panasonic.com/OPERMANPDF/AGHVX200.PDF
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Nick,
You will need the necessary P2 Drivers that can be downloaded for free from Panasonic’s website if you dont have them already. Im not 100% sure on the Mac OS but from my understanding the only difference between running Windows and Mac when importing is the type of cable. Mac (Firewire) and WIndows (USB). Very important step is to make sure that when your HVX is in P2 mode it is to set to the PC/DUB mode on the back of the camera. Press and hold it for about 5 seconds and the screen should turn blue and wait a few more seconds in which the computer should recognize it.
Once the camera is connected the P2 cards should appear under the computer as removable disk space. For now just click and drag those into your desktop. You’ll also need to create a folder on your desktop and title it “P2 Files” or anything that will make it easy for you to locate later. Open up the dragged files from your computer and open. Simply take the CONTENTS folder and copy/paste or click and drag into the newly created folder. This process will save the P2 the files to your computer.
Lastly to import the files to Premiere Pro, Open Premiere, Click File and go down to Export, Select your Desktop and then the Folder you created. Open the contents and select Video then Import. This may take several minutes depending on card size but after its complete your footage should be visible in your project window and you can start editing.
Hope this helps and Good Luck. AH
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Angelo, thank you so much. You helped solve my problem as well. I bought a new MAC and doesn’t have that older(pin 5?) HDMI port and therefore i can’t use my 1394 cable. Using USB is much slower but at least i can transfer the files without having to buy a adapter or other media readers.
Cheers
TAshi
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