[Terry Lewis]

How do I downgrade back to CC2017? That option is missing from the CC app.

[Terry Lewis]

Jon,

First off. Thank you for addressing my question. I wasn’t trying to be aggressive in my reply. I just wasn’t sure if you had used P2 or the Firestore 100.

The Firestore 100 is specifically designed to produce P2 mxf files, as well as many other formats. It is supposed to conform exactly to the P2 standard. The file directory tree is identical. When the same clips are imported into Avid Xpress Pro they come in as separate clips. In other Premiere Pro CS3 projects when importing P2 from a 16gig card they come in separate. This is the first project in Premiere in which I have used the Firestore. I have used it a lot in Avid. I do need to shoot a long shot like this one to verify that they are handled the same. I suspect that the Firestore P2 is being identified differently by Premiere.

Maybe Premiere is just identifying the continuous nature of these clips and joining them together. Even so I wonder why it would create 11 separate identical clips?

When one of the clips is imported it is 22mins long. All of the clips in the Premiere project window are exactly the same, 22mins long. This should be impossible with P2, since the files never exceed 2gigs. Is P2 fat16 with the 2gig limit?

I am mainly interested in getting this worked out to do projects in 1080/24p and remove the pulldown, since Xpress Pro doesn’t do this currently.

Thanks for helping with this.

[Terry Lewis]

Do you use P2? Are you familiar with the P2 mxf file structure and conventions? Do you have a Firestore?

I would like to hear from folks who actually use P2.

P2 MXF’s are always below 2 gigs. The exact file size in this case is 10 mxf video files at 1,912,533kb and one 19,720kb file at the end. This is always the case with a longer shoot without pausing. The “timelapse” here is the 22 minutes that the camera ran continuously. No special timelapse setting was used with the Firestore.

At issue is the way Premiere imported these mxf files. There should have been 11 separate yet consecutive files. There were 11 files but all were 22 minutes long.

When importing mxf files from my 16gig P2 card they always import in the manner above. Separate files under 2 gigs.

[Terry Lewis]

We made up a workaround. Since bridge does not allow attachment of metadata to PP2.0 projects we are now just adding a jpeg to the end of the timeline. By adding the jpeg with a unique filename we then attach metadata to the jpeg and use it to store keywords, other metadata etc. for serching in bridge. Then the PP2.0 project is archived in project manager to another drive making the entire archive fully searchable in bridge.

[Terry Lewis]

Ok. It was a silly question sort of. I expected bridge to work with windows file conventions in the “Find” dialogue box since the help file said bridge used wildcards. To find .avi files under criteria I selected Filename => ends with => avi. Leaving out *.avi was the answer.