Help. Mid Project, new drive - all .MXF

Jeffrey Butler · May 26th, 2007, 02:57 PM

I have nothing that can read or covert 145 gigs of P2 footage that has to get dropped into a large project. I have the full P2 disk structure/contents all on a Firewire hard drive.

I've tried MXF Convertor (looking for a deck?) and P2 Log (wants something other than a hard drive) - but I don't have the cards, I don't have a camera - all I have is a Firewire drive w/ a directory something like this: day one/a cam/card 1/audio | clip | icon | proxy | video | voice

Halp! Mac based, Final Cut Studio 2 (FCP 6, Motion 3) - P2 nOOb. How do I get this footage into FCP or at least Quicktime?

Jeffrey Butler · May 26th, 2007, 03:14 PM

Well, I did just realize I wasn't looking in the correct folder for P2 log to work... I may have solved my issue.

Jeffrey Butler · May 26th, 2007, 04:47 PM

3 words. Log and Transfer.

Never you mind P2 Log or anything else. FCP 6 has a sweet interface for all the P2 footage that gets dumped onto a drive. Just copy the entire "card1" or "card2" folder over and you can scrub, mark in/out and the then add it to the queue, keep poking around and it background converts it all....

Ahhhh. An incredible time saver for a project that dumped 142 gigs of P2 on us...

Mark Yamamoto · July 22nd, 2007, 01:15 PM

Thanks for the info on Log and Transfer. This works like a gem.

May 26th, 2007, 02:57 PM	#1
Jeffrey Butler Major Player Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Virgina, USA Posts: 276	Help. Mid Project, new drive - all .MXF - FCP 6. I have nothing that can read or covert 145 gigs of P2 footage that has to get dropped into a large project. I have the full P2 disk structure/contents all on a Firewire hard drive. I've tried MXF Convertor (looking for a deck?) and P2 Log (wants something other than a hard drive) - but I don't have the cards, I don't have a camera - all I have is a Firewire drive w/ a directory something like this: day one/a cam/card 1/audio \| clip \| icon \| proxy \| video \| voice Halp! Mac based, Final Cut Studio 2 (FCP 6, Motion 3) - P2 nOOb. How do I get this footage into FCP or at least Quicktime? __________________ Jeff Butler Butler Films

May 26th, 2007, 03:14 PM	#2
Jeffrey Butler Major Player Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Virgina, USA Posts: 276	Well, I did just realize I wasn't looking in the correct folder for P2 log to work... I may have solved my issue. __________________ Jeff Butler Butler Films

May 26th, 2007, 04:47 PM	#3
Jeffrey Butler Major Player Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Virgina, USA Posts: 276	FCP 6 ROCKS for P2 import 3 words. Log and Transfer. Never you mind P2 Log or anything else. FCP 6 has a sweet interface for all the P2 footage that gets dumped onto a drive. Just copy the entire "card1" or "card2" folder over and you can scrub, mark in/out and the then add it to the queue, keep poking around and it background converts it all.... Ahhhh. An incredible time saver for a project that dumped 142 gigs of P2 on us... __________________ Jeff Butler Butler Films

July 22nd, 2007, 01:15 PM	#4
Mark Yamamoto New Boot Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: United States Posts: 8	FS100 and FCP 6 Thanks for the info on Log and Transfer. This works like a gem.