Re: [Avid-L2] Avid and P2

I'm sorry, but yeah, me too. When you copy the ENTIRE card, that is
the full copy. Lastclip.txt and the CONTENTS folder with 6
subfolders. If you drag and drop those into a folder, you are getting
everything. It is best to use something like Shotput Pro to do this,
as it does a varification of the data, and automatic naming...but
really all it is doing is copying.

Not sure what you mean by TRUE clone. Just making sure you have all
the files? Yes, we have all the files.

This media was online at one time, and I was using it, then it went
offline. But now I need to re-load it, only I have no idea what card
this came from. NONE! Why? Because unlike FCP that puts the CARD
BACKUP FOLDERs name as the REEL number, Avid doesn't do this. REEL is
blank. And there is no Heading that will show me which card this came
from. And when Avid imports using the USER CLIP NAME (a feature I
THOUGHT I liked), I get BLACKSMITH ISRAEL1034...and not the 0004GH
number. So how do I search in my P2 backup folder for this user clip
name? I can't, it is buried in the metadata. If I had P2 Flow on
this mac, I could load all the cards and look that way, but I don't.

This is pretty frustrating...because I thought that Avid was the king
of media management, but it can't seem to handle P2 very well. At
least not according to my experience of late. And people blustering
about how GREAT it is that Avid works with MXF natively, and FCP needs
to wrap it into QT, and therefore Avid is faster...bullocks! You
still need to CONSOLIDATE the media from the card, or card dump folder
to the media drive, and that takes as long as log and transfer.

Sorry, this has turned into a rant. I just want to know if there is
ANY way to see what P2 card dump folder this footage came from, so I
can reload it. Or how I can get the media files, that I see with
REVEAL FILE, into the Avid...unless they are corrupt. My assistant
won't be in for a couple days, so this is a pain.

My Avid love is fading....

-shane

On Mar 30, 2010, at 12:57 PM, Roger Shufflebottom wrote:

> OK - could you clarify the difference for me? Thanks.
> +++
> With best wishes,
>
> Roger Shufflebottom
> roger@bottom-line.tv
> http://www.bottom-line.tv
>
> On 30 Mar 2010, at 19:30, Bruce Tovsky wrote:
>
> The important thing is to make
> sure you have a true clone of your media off the p2 card to your
> storage - don't just copy it from the card to a drive, which is what
> (almost) everyone does.
> cheers
> b
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>
>

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