Panasonic AG-HPX250PJ Understanding P2 Workflow: Avid Media Composer - Page 5

Creating clones of your data on an internal and/or external hard drive You can also copy your data directly from a P2 card (either firewire out of a camera, in a PCMCIA slot or via the AJ-PCD20 Media reader) to your hard drive. • Mount the P2 cards • Copy not Move. Copy all the files on the P2 card to the following folder on your hard drive: drive:\Avid MediaFiles\ MXF\1. Note: use the Copy function not Move. • Key Point. Regardless of how you acquire footage, it's vital that you archive it before erasing your P2 cards. Whether archiving to tape, or optical disc, or hard disk, make sure that you copy the entire contents of the card (CONTENTS folder and LASTCLIP.TXT file) to an archival media before formatting or erasing the cards. See the "Archiving" section at the end of this paper for more details. Acquisition in the studio Acquiring footage in the studio is similar to acquiring in the field, except of course you have much more control. All of the steps described above in Acquisition in the field apply, although in a studio it might most desirable to record directly to a laptop via Avid Media Composer then the only limitation on record time is the size of your external hard drive. Preparing for the edit on Avid Media Composer Getting content recorded originally on P2 cards into Avid Media Composer is very easy and you have a number of options. Editing directly from a P2 card. One of the best features of using P2 cards with your Avid Media Composer is that there is no need to capture, digitize or import. You can edit directly from your P2 card! Unquestionably, this is the fastest workflow path to editing, but remember you are tying up your P2 cards when you go this route. Insert the P2 card. If your mobile workstation has a PCMCIA card slot, you just insert your P2 card into the slot.