HVX200 & P2 Store & Avid Xpress Pro HD...Question/Help.

[dustinsleeping]

Hello

I am new here and this place is great. So much info.

Anyway....

I have Avid Xpress pro HD 5.2.1 and my issue is this...

I am shooting a short film this weekend using an HVX200 w/ the P2 Store. I will be dumping the footage to am external hard drive on the set using a Dell laptop and a G-Raid 500gb Hard Drive. I will then bring the hard drive back to my Avid Xpress Pro HD system (PC) and edit.

But...

I am having the same problem as a lot of people...I can't get the Avid to see the MXF files (except when reading directly from the P2 Store...then it is fine). I shot some test footage and I did the whole Avid MediaFiles folder bit (as descibed in the 1st post on this thread) and nothing.

The folder I made looks like this in my computer...

E:\Avid MediaFiles\MXF\1

Is it the direction of the slashes that is causing the problem? Should it look like this...

E:/Avid MediaFiles/MXF/1

...and if so how do I cange them to look that way?

I had to make the folder myself. There was a folders called Avid_MediaFiles. I used that and took out the _ Then I moved it from the C Drive to the E Drive (its a bigger drive).

Also...

I know I more than likely wont get this figured out by tomorrow (when I start filming) so should I be worried about offloading all of our P2 cards to hard drives and hoping that later on I can read the files off of the hard drives and put them into Xpress Pro? I know I will transfer all of the files from the cards as we go (Audio, Video, Clips, etc). Will I be OK?

Any help or advice would be totally appreciated.

Thank You. :dankk2:

Dustin Lane

[riellyboy]

a quickway to make sure you have a proper MXF folder created: open the project and import a simple graphic file (I always grab SMPTE color bars), ientify the target drive on import and the ap will create the folder for you. You should then be able to drag MXFs from the P2 store to that folder. Then just use the media tool method of identifying the masterclips, drag to a bin, and edit.

good luck

[dustinsleeping]

I will not have Avid Express installed on the laptop we are using to transfer the files to a hard drive.

thanks

d

[Take_1]

One thing to remember is that the P2 technology and workflow is still relatively new. You must first make sure that you are running software that will support your workflow. Avid does work very well with the .mxf workflow from the Panasonic cameras.

I notice that your version of Xpress Pro is not the current releace, in fact by Avid standards it is behind by a fair bit. I would first make sure that your version of software (via documentation) is new enough to support this workflow as offhand I can't remember when they started supporting it. If it isn't current enough you will need to install the latest release.

Avid Xpress Pro 5.7

[THoff]

Dustin, you can't change the directory separator character, that's dictated by the operating system. There is no way (and no need) to change it.

The problem is that Avid's way of dealing with MXF files is rather pathetic, it is at best a kludge and the engineer who came up with it should be taken outside and shot.

Take a look at the following sticky on how to use MXF files in Avid. If you deviate from the instructions in any way (other than using a backslash as the delimiter), it will probably not work.

http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?t=57544

[dustinsleeping]

Yeah - I have seen that thread and thats what I have been going off of.

I can read and edit directly from the P2 Store so you think that it would work.

Question...

Transfering from the P2 Store to another hard drive. If I transfer all of the files from each card as I shoot on to the Hard Drive...I should be cool right?
To be able to access the audio and video later on to edit (even if I dont use Avid...what if I switch over to FInal Cut Pro?...will it been an issue because I am transfering the files to a hard drive via a PC?)

Thanks for all the Help.

Dustin