[Craig Alan]

Thanks Sam.
My card reader is as single slot and looks like this

with this inside

FCP X see the

But I can’t seem to copy/clone this to my media drive.

So instead I’ve been creating a finder folder, labeling it and copying the

in it.

How do you get the card itself to copy to your media raid?

I can drag it to a drive but get an alias. I can import it into FC and FC will give it the camera name you see in pic which was created in the finder by right clicking the card and renaming it.

Is there any import feature in FC X that would be a way to sorta transcode it to a codec like what you are doing in 7?

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[Craig Alan]

That sounds like a good practice. What about leaving markers at the head of the detached audio and matching video clips and at several points within so that you can always put Humpty back together again?

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[Craig Alan]

Thanks.
When your copying the P2 cards in the finder, are you dragging the contents and last clip to a folder or are you using a tool or app or some other container to copy them over?

what exactly are these two containers?

Also, although any given project is small by comparison to what you are dealing with, By the time I have a card copy then a FC media import and then a back up of all this my raids do get filled up.

I have not noticed a space saving or any difference when I check optimize in FCP X import. But maybe I’m wrong. If I’m right, how are you optimizing? or transcoding??

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[Craig Alan]

[John Fishback] “send reference (black or tri-level) to all the cameras Ref (or Gen) inputs.”

The hpx 250 does have gen lock and tc inputs.

Will this work as well as external devices that go out to 2 or more camera?

Do I just use SDI cables between the two cams?

From the manual

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[Craig Alan]

Actually the first folder in FC is actually longer than one full card would be. So FC kept the two folders by label but split the clips in these folders according to pause/record of the cameras. So I think it did marry the clip that spanned between card one and card two in each camera.

Hope that made sense.

Is there anyway to have them import as if they are one larger card

rather than the two labels 1 and 2 that I gave them?

Could you show me an example of how you organize it in the finder?

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[Craig Alan]

Thanks Sam,

I’m getting closer but still no cigar.

I copied the four P2 cards that together made up the long clips into labeled folders in the finder.

And FCP X no longer broke the footage into 5 min clips. But it did treat the two cards for each camera as independent clips. So I ended up with four clips in FC rather than 2 (one for each camera).

Should the 2 card files from one camera not be put in separate folders in the finder?

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[Craig Alan]

Because the wall just is not getting enough light.

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[Craig Alan]

It’s just 2 p2 cards.
And I’m importing into FCP X not 7.

I’m pretty sure its completely spanned since it appears in the camera as one long clip.

[Sam Lee] “FCP 10.2.1 is not as acute in this. So you have to prep it ahead of time for spanning otherwise each clip is 5 min vs hours long. “

So how is this done? That is my issue.

I have not named the cards in camera. I just label the little white board and create a folder on my computer giving it metadata I make up with project scene date and A or B cam.

FCP X will include the folder name and treat it as the “camera name”

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[Craig Alan]

Thanks

I’m going to try copying both cards to folders and then import together and see if that works.

I’ll call panasonic and ask if there is any settings that might effect the behavior.

Yes lining them up on the timeline might do the trick but I have concerns. if it works I guess I can just make them compound clips so that it becomes one long clip again.

I can also try to connect the camera with the two cards using a usb cable but I think I need a pana utility to read it. The mac does not see the cam.

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[Craig Alan]

This sounds promising. So if i copy each card to a folder and then import all the folders at once, FCP X will merge them? into what I see on the camera? I was wondering if I could import from the camera rather than a P@ card reader but my Mac didn’t see the connected camera (mini-usb to usb). In USB mode.

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