[Avid-L2] OT: FCP P2 Ingest

Tom,

> Tom McDonnell wrote:
> The import into FCP was glacial. Mac was running Leopard but ....
> .... Is this normal?

I don't know. Were you doing this direct from the card? Through a card reader? That would be very slow. I normally get P2 files already copied to cheap hard drives. These are usually USB, which is typically slower on Macs than PCs. In any case, I only use FCP's Log & Transfer and import it all. Time is consistent with USB transfer times in general. Figure about 60-100GB per hour at best.

FCP has to open the MXF files, interleave the audio & video and rewrap into QuickTime MOVs. That's the process while it's copying the files. It's also tracking the appropriate metadata.

- Oliver

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