How Do I Import The P2 Contents folder into Final CUt Pro or Avid?

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gwarkillers

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How do you import P2 footage when the media CONTENTS have been dragged off the card and placed onto a computer hard drive. The media has been already cleared from the P2 cards. I would love help for either bringing the footage into Final Cut Pro or Avid. It appears that the video is saved as MXF files in the Content folder...So I don't know if Final Cut Pro will accept them. I appreciate any help with this issue.


Thanks Again for any input!
 
You also need the LASTCLIP.TXT file, and both this file and the CONTENTS folder need to be together in a unique folder. Then use FCP Log & Transfer.

If there are no spanned clips, you can just create a dummy LASTCLIPP.TXT.
 
It would be helpful if you indicated what version number of FCP you have.

Depending on that, and so long as there are no spanned clips, use import p2 volume or Log and Transfer.

Also, this workflow is detailed in the manual.
 
Forget FCP, it´s a toy. With Avid you dont need to import, you can edit directly from the card with AMA, within seconds.
 
I hope you are not serious speaking of "inflammatory":2vrolijk_08:, this is just the opinion of an experienced editor: compared to Avid FCP feels like a toy when you work with it and I will tell you why. This is exactly what helping means: passing experiences. If you think FCP is great, express your opinion, but let other people express theirs. This is what a forum is for, right?

In my opinion, which comes from great experience, I found FCP to be uncomfortable to handle, unstable, with bad data management. FCP is cheaper, that´s an argument, but when you work professionally on long projects, I´d never take the risk.
 
Just to throw my two cents in...I have used FCP for over 6 years and have never found it to be unstable. I don't recall a crash once from that program. I have edited projects well in excess of two hours and while I'm not sure that constitutes a long project to everyone, it was lengthy to me. It handled multiple streams of video, graphics and several audio and fx tracks well which is why I continue to use it today. I have always run it on a fairly beefed up power mac (now getting some age and due for updating) and have always used quality drives and accessories with it. No problems to report on this end.
 
In what way?
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dangerous in that MOST people ive heard who make a practice of editing direct from the card typically neglect to ever copy over the full content of the card and thus wind up not having a source archive.

i consider that a very dangerous practice. others may disagree
 
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There is perhaps a (unproven) co-relation between system requirements and FCP crashes, especially in terms of memory.

In other words, a beefier system could be more stable.

That's my observation. No hard data.
 
There is perhaps a (unproven) co-relation between system requirements and FCP crashes, especially in terms of memory.

In other words, a beefier system could be more stable.

That's my observation. No hard data.
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thanks, but what does this have to do with the topic at hand?
 
The OP didn't ask for your opinion of FCP. He asked for assistance with an import issue.

That's what I thought these boards were for.

Why alienate an entire user base for no reason at all?

I don't get it.
 
gwarkillers said:
I would love help for either bringing the footage into Final Cut Pro or Avid. It appears that the video is saved as MXF files in the Content folder.
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It depends on which version of Avids Media Composer you are using: the newer versions have AMA: you just navigate to the folder above the content folder and let AMA do the rest - it only takes seconds. You don´t need to import again.

If you want to back up important data twice just copy the whole folder, no need to block the editing system.
 
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