Easy Injesting of Old P2 Card Video

Forum|Forum|8 years ago
January 26, 2018
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So I have again been given one of our older Panasonics that uses those absolutely awful P2 cards for storage. Shoot yesterday filled one card and put the last few minutes on the 2nd. If I hook the camera up directly to Premiere it sees the whole file system as one. If I use the file browser I see two USB devices with the video split across two folders.

I have the P2 viewer installed but I can never figure out how to use it--the interface is as cludgey as the P2 file system. I see two cards and the clips on the cards but they are just like the file explorer on the PC. Not treating the two cards as one file system.

I thought I could go into project manager and tell Premiere to move everything to a local folder but it doesn't move the media, just the project files.

There has to be an easier way.

Please help.

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RobShultz

Community Expert

Media Browser should bring the clips in spanned as a single clip.

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John EllenbergerAuthor

Inspiring

It brings them in but doesn't copy them locally. It just setups up the links etc.

I need to get them off the camera AND bring them into the project.

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excited_Genie16B8

Legend

I need to get them off the camera AND bring them into the project.

Those are two different steps. You do the first with Windows Explorer, and the second with Media browser.

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excited_Genie16B8

Legend

Use Windows Explorer to copy both cards in full to the hard drive as a first step.

(Copy them again to a backup location as a second step.)

Then use Media Browser in PP to import the clips.

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RobShultz

Community Expert

Maybe try copying all of the media on you hard drive and then navigating to it with the Media Browser panel. After you locate the files you can select them, right click and import them.

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John EllenbergerAuthor

Inspiring

Yes but that is what I was trying to avoid. I was looking for an Adobe program (speedgrade? media encoder) that could see the camera file system as a file system and injest the media as a single clip (as I shot it; not as it appears on the cards).

Maybe silly but at least with the SD cameras you can just copy a single file system and be done with it.

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