User Guide

80 Chapter 6 Working With Panasonic P2 Media
7 If necessary, add additional P2 folders from the Finder by doing one of the following:
 Click the Add Folder button in the upper-left corner of the Browse area, choose a P2
folder, then click OK.
 Drag a P2 folder from the Finder to the Browse area, then release the mouse button.
 From the Action pop-up menu in the upper-right corner of the Browse area, choose
Add Custom Path, choose a P2 folder, then click OK.
8 Select a clip in the Browse area of the Import Panasonic P2 window to view it in the
Preview area.
9 In the Preview area, set In and Out points to identify the media you want to ingest.
By default, a clip’s Reel property is the same as the name of the P2 volume where it is
stored. If the clip is part of a spanned clip, its Reel property defaults to “Spanned Reel.”
If you want, you can change a clip’s Reel property to a more memorable name. This
step helps you if you want to reingest a clip’s media later and you need to remember
where the clip’s original media is stored. Changing a clip’s reel name is particularly
important when working with spanned clips. For more information, see “Choosing Reel
Names and Understanding P2 Volume Names” on page 94.
10 Change the clip’s Reel property in the Browse area, Logging area, or Preview area.
11 Change the P2 clip name to a more meaningful name than the default name assigned
by the P2 camcorder.
12 Add descriptive information about each clip in the logging fields. These properties are
included with the clip when it is ingested and stored in the Browser.
13 Click Import Settings in the Logging area, then select the video and audio channels you
want to ingest. The number of audio channels available (usually two or four) depends
on how many channels the P2 clip in the Browse area contains. You can group pairs of
audio channels as stereo or dual mono.
14 Do one of the following:
 In the Browse area, select one or more clips, then click Add Selection to Queue.
 In the Preview area, click Add Clip to Queue.
Note: When you click the Add Clip to Queue button, only the clip that appears in the
Preview area is added to the Transfer Queue.
For more ways to add clips to the Transfer Queue, see “Adding Clips to the Transfer
Queue for Ingest” on page 92.
15 Watch the Transfer Queue area to see the status of your ingested media.
If necessary, you can output footage back to P2 cards using the Print to Video
command. For more information, see “Using Print to Video to Output to P2 Cards in the
AG-HVX200” on page 98.