This is a clever workflow based on the fact that your last clip on one card is almost always split to the next card in the camera. (The LASTCLIP.TXT file associates those split files.)
Since you will be dealing with a card-spanning clip only once in each pair of P2 cards, you should store each pair of cards as only one CONTENTS folder. Merge the cards by moving all the files from one card’s folders into the other.
For example, say you pop a pair of 8GB cards out of the camera, and you copy the contents of one to a folder named “0001” and the contents of the other to a folder named “0002”. Open up /0002/CONTENTS/AUDIO, and copy all the files from that folder to 0001/CONTENTS/AUDIO. Do the same for the contents of all the folders in 0002/CONTENTS. Then delete folder 0002--including its LASTCLIP.TXT, since you will never use it.
You end up with only one folder. In its CONTENTS are all the files from both P2 cards. HDLog and Final Cut Pro import them as though they were one huge 16GB card. The benefit for HDLog is that, when you sort on the column “TIMECODE In”, the clip that was split in 2 by the camera (between cards) now has both those splits right on top of each other, and HDLog will merge them for you. Sorting on “Media Start” during FCP import provides a similar benefit.
Since you will be dealing with a card-spanning clip only once in each pair of P2 cards, you should store each pair of cards as only one CONTENTS folder. Merge the cards by moving all the files from one card’s folders into the other.
For example, say you pop a pair of 8GB cards out of the camera, and you copy the contents of one to a folder named “0001” and the contents of the other to a folder named “0002”. Open up /0002/CONTENTS/AUDIO, and copy all the files from that folder to 0001/CONTENTS/AUDIO. Do the same for the contents of all the folders in 0002/CONTENTS. Then delete folder 0002--including its LASTCLIP.TXT, since you will never use it.
You end up with only one folder. In its CONTENTS are all the files from both P2 cards. HDLog and Final Cut Pro import them as though they were one huge 16GB card. The benefit for HDLog is that, when you sort on the column “TIMECODE In”, the clip that was split in 2 by the camera (between cards) now has both those splits right on top of each other, and HDLog will merge them for you. Sorting on “Media Start” during FCP import provides a similar benefit.