When
you have finished editing a sequence using assets from a Panasonic
P2 card, you can export the edited sequence to a hard disk or back
to a P2 card. You can also export individual clips to the P2 format.
The
maximum file size for a clip stored in the P2 format is 4 GB. When
Adobe Premiere Pro exports clips or sequences larger than 4 GB to
P2 format, it exports them as groups of 4 GB spanned clips. For
more information about clip spanning, see About
spanned clips from Panasonic P2 media.
When exporting
to P2 from a sequence with a 5.1-channel Master Track, Adobe Premiere
Pro can export the sequence into files with four monaural channels each.
This matches the channel array typically recorded by P2 cameras
to P2 media, and therefore makes for a simple workflow from P2 card
to edit and back to P2 card. To enable this workflow for a sequence,
import the P2 clips into a project containing a 5.1-channel sequence
and map the source channels to their specified tracks before placing
the clips into the sequence or exporting them to P2. For more information,
see Mapping audio channels.
Note: Exporting to P2 from stereo sequences,
which are the default type used in the various P2 presets, will
produce files with two mono tracks with the sequence’s stereo panning
preserved.
Select the sequence or clip in the Timeline panel
or Project panel.
(Optional) If exporting from the Timeline, set a timeline
marker, numbered “0” on the frame you want used as the P2 icon for
the exported.
If you do not set this marker, the first frame of
the sequence will appear as the P2 icon by default.
Choose File > Export > Export To P2.
Enter a name for the exported item in the User Clip Name
field.
This name is used as the value for the UserClipName
element in the exported clip’s metadata XML file. The UserClipName
value appears in the Name column of the Project panel when the clip
is imported back into Adobe Premiere Pro. If you do not specify
a name, the file name appears in the Name column. The name of the
file is automatically generated in conformance with the Panasonic
P2 MXF format.
Click Browse, navigate to the root of the mounted P2
card or your destination folder of choice, and click OK.
If a P2 compliant file structure is present at the
destination, the exported clips will be added to the existing folders.
If the P2 compliant file structure isn’t present, Adobe Premiere
Pro creates one for you at the destination.
Choose a duration to export:
Entire Clip
Exports the entire clip
Entire Sequence
Exports the entire sequence
In To Out
Exports only the trimmed duration of the clip
Work Area Bar
Exports only the work area, the portion of the sequence
defined by the work area bar
The sequence or clip is added to the CONTENTS folder
of the P2 card, with the video MXF file added to the VIDEO folder,
the audio MXF file added to the AUDIO folder, the icon file added
to the ICON folder, and the metadata XML file added to the CLIP
folder.
For an overview of the workflow for Panasonic P2 assets possible in Adobe Premiere Pro, see Dave Helmly's video tutorial here: http://www.barkingdogstudios.com/dkh/DKH_P2Intro.html
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smuratore said on Oct 18, 2007 at 12:52 PM :