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William LiPera · December 4th, 2006, 01:37 PM

When using two P2 cards and a shot spills over onto the second card how do you make that into one clip on your editing program(Vegas for example).

Barry Green · December 4th, 2006, 07:06 PM

On an editor that understands the MXF file format, it's done automatically for you.

On a system like Vegas, it doesn't understand the MXFs at all, you have to convert the MXF files into .AVI files. Which means you have to manually take the two chunks of footage and butt them together on the timeline.

If you use EDIUS or Avid or FCP, they all know about multiple clips spanning multiple cards and can deal with it seamlessly.

December 4th, 2006, 01:37 PM	#1
William LiPera Regular Crew Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 83	using two P2 cards When using two P2 cards and a shot spills over onto the second card how do you make that into one clip on your editing program(Vegas for example).

December 4th, 2006, 07:06 PM	#2
Barry Green Barry Wan Kenobi Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: North Carolina Posts: 3,863	On an editor that understands the MXF file format, it's done automatically for you. On a system like Vegas, it doesn't understand the MXFs at all, you have to convert the MXF files into .AVI files. Which means you have to manually take the two chunks of footage and butt them together on the timeline. If you use EDIUS or Avid or FCP, they all know about multiple clips spanning multiple cards and can deal with it seamlessly.