Panasonic P2 Handheld Camcorder Understanding P2 Workflow: Final Cut Pro - Page 12

Missing P2 Cards

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FCP will search your media drives for the clips. If the media is there, the Log and Transfer window will open and the clips will be ingested. Again, this is a background process. You may continue to work as normal. If the media is not found, FCP will present another dialog box asking for the missing content. From here, you may need to retrieve the reels from archived media such as optical disc, hard drive, or DLT, etc. Copy the requested volumes to your media disk. Open the Log and Transfer window, then add the volumes via the custom path. Now choose Batch Capture again, and the process will begin. Missing P2 Cards If FCP does not show your card(s), you may need to point FCP to the location manually. Do this by selecting "Add Folder" and navigating to the appropriate location. Occasionally, your P2 volumes may not mount on the desktop after insertion. If this occurs, a quick trip to the Disk Utility application (located in /Applications/Utilities) is needed to manually mount the volume. To do so, look for the volume that is orange in color and click on it, and choose mount from the tool bar. 12

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FCP will search your media drives for the clips. If the media is there, the Log and Transfer window will open and the clips
will be ingested. Again, this is a background process. You may continue to work as normal. If the media is not found, FCP
will present another dialog box asking for the missing content.
From here, you may need to retrieve the reels from archived media such as optical disc, hard drive, or DLT, etc. Copy the
requested volumes to your media disk. Open the Log and Transfer window, then add the volumes via the custom path. Now
choose Batch Capture again, and the process will begin.
Missing P2 Cards
If FCP does not show your card(s), you may need to point FCP to the
location manually. Do this by selecting “Add Folder” and navigating to the
appropriate location. Occasionally, your P² volumes may not mount on
the desktop after insertion. If this occurs, a quick trip to the Disk Utility
application (located in /Applications/Utilities) is needed to manually mount
the volume.
To do so, look for the volume that is orange in color and click on
it, and choose mount from the tool bar.