P2 Cards

Ericsound wrote on 7/20/2009, 1:38 PM

I have a project that was shot HD on Panasonic P2 cards. Are there any problems ingesting with a P2 card reader using Vegas Pro 9? I'll need to rent a card reader, so I want to make sure I'm doing it right.

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kairosmatt wrote on 7/20/2009, 2:13 PM

Hi Eric,
You're going to need Raylight Ultra to read the files on the timeline natively.
http://www.dvfilm.com/raylight/ultra/index.htm

Raylight can also convert them to AVIs as can Cineform. My Vegas experience has been much better with the converted AVI over the native MXF, although you lose two audio tracks.

kairosmatt

Ericsound wrote on 7/20/2009, 3:20 PM

Thanks! I'm just waiting for my serial number to get started.

I only had a day with the P2 cards before they had to go back, so I copied everything to a drive, and it looks like this will take the files right off the drive. Good advice about converting them to AVIs. These have only two tracks of audio anyway. The extra tracks are on a multitrack audio recorder.

Thanks again!

Eric

TimTyler wrote on 7/20/2009, 11:18 PM

I've been editing raw P2 MXF's in Vegas for a couple of years and never had to convert them to AVI.

Raylight rocks.