Bjoern Adamski
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Try maybe also VideoPier:
https://www.aquafadas.com/en/videopier/
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P2CMS has no media export. It just installs a P2 MXF component to let you read the native P2 MXF files. The problem is that you would need to import the separate video and audio and this seems not to make sense in this workflow as there are 2, 4 or 8 independent audio files for P2.
We have a native professional P2 workflow for FCP with “P2 Flow CM” and “MXF4QT Import” but it won’t help here.
I suggest in case you need the audio in iMovie then the most practicable solution would be to use the competing solution from Greg to open the P2 files in QuickTime Player. As long as the original P2 CONTENTS structure is available it will find the audio files and includes them to the video. From the QuickTime Player you can then export to a QuickTime movie (give reference movies a try) and this should be then importable in iMovie. Not native but you can read video and audio from one true file, something that works best with iMovie. You can also have a look for a solution called Raylight, it also allows creation of reference files from P2 media.
I wouldn’t call the procedure with iMovie a workflow and the time it costs you is probably worth a Final Cut Studio package but since you really need a possibility to get the P2 into iMovie there aren’t much alternatives.———————
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Correct.
I don’t want to hide this information from you. There is also a free version available directly from Panasonic, as part of P2CMS. It does exactly the same (for P2) but doesn’t support timecode. If you don’t need timecode maybe just go for the free solution.
Our solution reads the original timecode from both the video and audio MXF files and also for spanned clips. There is also more comprehensive support for other MXF variations such as D10/IMX including streaming support just in case you need that.
Best
Bjoern———————
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Hey Greg,
I would like to have a chat with you. What’s the best way to contact you?
Thanks
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Hi Greg,
much respect for your solution but I don’t think it works for iMovie as iMovie copies or moves the selected video file to the project folder and like this the original P2 CONTENTS structure is not available anymore. As far as I understand your solution it won’t find the audio and timecode anymore in this case.
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MXF4mac
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This warning is outdated and can be ignored. FCP is simply not (yet) aware of native MXF import. Anything other than MOV will pop up this message. You can create reference movies from those MXF files and then the warning won’t appear even if still the same video and audio data is accessed from the pure MXF. You can disable the message in FCP. Go to ‘File’ – ‘User Preferences’ – ‘General’ and uncheck the option ‘Warn when importing non-optimized media’. Our tests showed that native P2 performs even better then MOV as the separated video and audio fits better for editing performance.
This is what the manual says about it:
“In rare cases, Final Cut Pro alerts you if imported media files cannot be optimized for multiple-stream, real-time playback. These files are perfectly fine to use in your Final Cut Pro project. Unless you are editing with multiple uncompressed video streams that demand maximum media file performance, you can usually leave the files as they are and continue editing normally. Since Final Cut Pro always optimizes files when capturing, simply recapturing should maximize the file’s performance.”
So, if you want to import your native P2 media in full duration and with original MXF timecode then I suggest to use our MXF4QT Import solution. As is said the 30 seconds limitation comes from the demo version. The full version supports the full duration and spanned clips.
If you don’t need the timecode then I suggest you go for P2CMS from Panasonic and use the included MXF preview component. It does more or less the same but timecode is not included.
Please review the documentations from the SERVICE section on our website.
Best
Bjoern———————
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P2CMS from Panasonic is for free and I think it should do the job for iMovie since this is not a professional workflow where timecode is required.
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When opening the MXF file in QuickTime Player do you see timecode (QT Player needs to have timecode activated in Preferences)?
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Based on the provided information it’s hard to say what’s wrong with your files or your system. Let’s start from the beginning.
1. How do you import the P2 files into FCP, by using Log and Transfer or the normal file import?
2. When you open the MXF files in QT Player, do you have video and audio or just video?
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That said, the DVCPRO HD codec is provided by FCP so it’s not available on a an iMovie only system.
However iMovie does not support timecode therefore the free P2CMS 1.37 could probably do the same as it installs a basic P2 MXF reader as well and a free DVCPRO HD decoder component.
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