Restore P2 Card File Structure

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cmus

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I think I may be out of luck here, but I thought it might be worth a try asking you guys.

I followed the instructions to get MXF files into Avid by copying and pasting the contents of the audio and video folders from a P2 card into the folder \Avid MediaFiles\MXF\1. This worked great. No problem using the files in Avid. I have since reformatted the P2 card to record new shots. At the time, I wasn't aware that Avid could also access the contents of a virtual P2 card if you map it as a network drive. I now prefer that approach as it eases organization of my clips.

My question is this: Is there any way to take the files I pasted into the MXF\1 directory and rebuild them into a directory with the same structure as a P2 card so they can be seen as a P2 card? This would not only let me use them how I want to in Avid, but then I could also access them from the P2 Viewer. P2 Viewer can not read these files as I currently have them stored.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Aloha,
Cmus
 
Why not just archive the full MXF file contents folder (and lastclip.txt) for those purposes?

If you've discarded the CLIP and ICON folders, you may not be able to resurrect a valid-looking card, I don't know (haven't tried). But I'd want to have an original mirror archive of my cards in any case, and that would give you something to fall back on for your P2 Viewer experience etc.

You can try just reversing out the process, copying the video and audio files back into appropriate contents/video and contents/audio folders, and substituting in some appropriately-named CLIP and ICON folders, and a blank PROXY and VOICE folder too, but I don't know whether it'll work.
 
Hmm,

Looks interesting, but I'm not a Mac user. Any Windows solution out there?


Yes Barry, that is what I do now. It was just the footage I shot after first getting the camera that I would like to try to rebuild.

Thanks for helping,
Cmus
 
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