[Brian Wiebe]

I have not attempted that–I haven’t opened up a deck before. Can you outline that process at all? Is it basically: unscrew the top, apply q-tip to dirty parts of the tape path?

Anything I should avoid? I should have it unplugged obviously, but are there mistakes that would make things worse basically.

[Brian Wiebe]

I could be mistaken, but I was unable to offload and verify using P2log Pro–I upgraded to the Bronze version of HD log, and it works great.

Also, the people at imagine software were very helpful.

[Brian Wiebe]

I see what you are saying now–I guess I expected the P2log program to perform the transfer–if that makes any sense? As I understand it now–I drag and drop the p2 contents onto an external hard drive at the finder level, and then open it up in P2log to check it.

I really appreciate all of the helpful info you have supplied–so thank you again.

[Brian Wiebe]

So I purchased P2 log at your suggestion, and I am not understanding how it functions or what it does–I want to transfer files from a P2 card to an external hard drive for use in AVID.

This is what the help menu gives me to work with:

“Export to Avid (and others)

With P2 Log Pro, you can also create new P2 volumes of desired Clips and save them for direct importing into Avid (or another P2 compatible editor).

To do this, drag and drop clips into an open P2 Volume, or perform a P2 Volume Search, then save the result to create a new P2 Volume. You can also perform multiple searches and append the results by saving to an existing P2 Volume.”

So according to this, I should open up the P2 card and then save it, but when I save it–I am given no options as to the location I wish to save it to. Maybe I am missing something right under my nose, and if so please point it out.

Or is the only purpose of this software to verify something that I have already dragged and dropped on the external hard drive?

[Brian Wiebe]

Thank you for all the great info.

[Brian Wiebe]

Thanks again!

[Brian Wiebe]

Also, in your opinion what is the best way to shoot with an XL2–24p, 30p, 60i. I know a lot of people complain about the strobing of 24p, and now I am running into the interlacing issues with 60i, so is 30p the way to go?

[Brian Wiebe]

Thank you for your advice–I will definitely think about all of that in the future. I have a follow up question–if I have captured a finished show off of a beta tape, exported a quicktime reference, and am converting it to an mp4 in sorenson, is there any need to deinterlace? or does that depend on how the initial source was shot?

Thank you again!