[Patrick Mcintyre]

Panasonic/P2/FCP seem to be VERY sensitive to the order in which the cards are recorded AND transferred.
The order of the transfer must be the same as the order they were shot, then P2/FCP sorts out the spans and links everything together as you would expect. But the cards must be entered for transfer in the order they were shot. This sort of makes sense from a file management point of view. So if you shoot 4 P2 Cards, label the cards 1, 2, 3, 4 and use successive pairs (in my case the camera has 2 slots) to offload the material: P1/P2; P2/P3; P3/P4. Please let me know if this works for you. It has worked fine for me and the time I didn’t do it this way was a HUGE mess. Best, Patrick McIntyre cow@jpmcintyre.com jpm@EllKatProductions.com