I made disk images of the original p2 cards and they are stored on an external drive and on my computer. So the original structure of the p2 card is intact – when I unarchive the .dmgs a virtual drive called NO NAME shows up and acts as the p2 card.
the footage that i’ve imported through fcp goes into a capture scratch folder on an external drive and all those quicktimes look weird. I’ve also tried capturing directly to my computer’s hard drive but that doesn’t work either. I have also tried on another computer, which is also a mac and has the same version of fcp on it.
if I open the info window on the clips I have imported (quicktime files) this is what I get:
FORMAT:
DVCPRO HD 720p60, 960 x 720 (1248 x 702), Millions
16-bit Integer (Little Endian), Center, 48.000 kHz
16-bit Integer (Little Endian), Center, 48.000 kHz
16-bit Integer (Little Endian), Center, 48.000 kHz
16-bit Integer (Little Endian), Center, 48.000 kHz
FPS:
23.98
DATA RATE:
47.26 Mbit/s
CURRENT SIZE:
1248 x 702 pixels (Actual)
I have tried “ingesting” the cards through P2CMS but all that seems to do is create copies of the p2 cards and basically turn each clip into its own p2 card if that makes sense.
One thing that seems strange to me is that the native video codec appears to be DV100_720/59.94p (in the P2CMS display window)
I thought i was shooting 720 24p but … ?
thanks for your help!