P2 Log and Transfer

Hi, all

I know I have addressed this issue in the past, but it has been a while, and I've been in Avid world, and now I can't remember what to do.

I just got back to LA from Chicago, with a hard drive full of transferred P2 cards (shot on Panasonic AF100), which I am now attempting to L&T into FCP 7.

On some of the camera rolls, I am getting the old "[A 7] contains unsupported media or has an invalid directory structure." I put the roll number in brackets because I get the same error message on, for instance, A 14 and A 15.

A 7 clearly contains a spanned file. Where A 6 ends at Clip #12, A 7 picks up at clip #13. And sure enough, it doesn't have any of the regular directory structure. But the data is clearly all there. It's about 13 shots worth of footage. Correspondingly, B 7 has the same issue.

What does one do to get the shots through L&T in these instances?

Thanks very much!

First thing is that no one should copy only the video files from a camera mag. The files should be copied and verified usually with a software like Shotput Pro.

So if you only have the mts files, you'll need a software like Clipwrap to transcode the footage to Prores.

[www.divergentmedia.com]



www.strypesinpost.com

I bought MTS/M2TS converter, and that seems to be working fine, although the clips come in "not optimized" for FCP. And also, they are straight 24 fps rather than 23.98, and they are 32-bit Floating point, rather than 16. Is this going to cause me trouble down the road? Would I be better off using Clipwrap?

Thanks!

Also I just realized it is stripping my timecode. Will Clipwrap do that?

Clipwrap comes from a trustworthy developer. The converter you downloaded from sounds like spam ware. I would be wary of downloading spam ware.



www.strypesinpost.com

I actually can't seem to state the brand of the one I downloaded because LAFCPUG censors it.

I have switched to Clipwrap, and it is working great. Problem solved!

Censors it? Please explain

Michael Horton
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Perhaps he's using Pa*Tube or A*nsoft. Those were added to the banned words list, I think.


www.derekmok.com

Really? Thought we only ban profanity.

Michael Horton
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It's been a while, but I think I added some of them to try to reduce the spam that was headed our way. It seems to work, since we haven't seen that sort of spam for a little while. If you feel that's going too far, feel free to remove those words, or I can do it. I added a few word combinations for those jewellery spams as well (eg. "t*omassabo" ).


www.derekmok.com

Hey if it helps reduce spam I'm all for censorship

Michael Horton
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Any mts converters that anyone gooogles up these days are spamware, thanks to SEO. Talk about the power of influencing search results on Google. More than that, looking at their marketing terms, they are probably owned by the same parent company.

Any moment this post may get hit by a bunch of bot triggered spam attacks selling low grade converters because this post would triggers off some kind of keyword search. Although strangely, I haven't seen those mts converter spam posts for quite a while. They are now mostly confined to shoes and jewelry.



www.strypesinpost.com

> I haven't seen those mts converter spam posts for quite a while.

I can only hope that means the censoring is working...I had to be careful just in case a user named "Thomas" or "Pandora" drops by.

Sorry about the detour there, Ben...I was a recent convert to ClipWrap as well. Ten times better than Voltaic, at least for the one project I needed it for (Sony AVCHD MTS files, with yet another inexperienced cameraman who didn't know to preserve folder structures). ClipWrap is not that much more expensive either; I think ClipWrap was $50 while Voltaic was $40.


www.derekmok.com

Can we ban the word jewelry? :-)

Michael Horton
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And "jewellery". These folks seem to come from the PAL world.



www.strypesinpost.com

Yes, it was Pa*tube. I had no idea the world I was wading into when I went searching for a converter. Sordid.

Bejamin,

You can also use my copyCards app to copy cards savely. It's no spamware, it's save, it's virus free and finally free at all. Many many people here know that I'm a "good" guy.
[www.spherico.de]

Andreas

Some workflow tools for FCP [www.spherico.com]
TitleExchange -- juggle titles within FCS, FCPX and many other apps.
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