User Guide

86 Chapter 6 Working With Panasonic P2 Media
 List view buttons: There are two ways to view the list of clips on mounted P2 volumes:
 Hierarchical List view: View clips grouped by volume. In this view, you can click the
disclosure triangle next to a volume name to show or hide the clips contained
within. You can also select the volume and press the Right Arrow key to open it
and the Left Arrow key to close it. By default, this view shows columns for Name,
thumbnail images, Media Start, and Media Duration.
 Flat List view: View clips from all mounted P2 volumes in a single list. Each clip’s
parent volume is specified in the Volume column. This view is unique because it
consolidates spanned clips into a single item. If you are working with spanned
clips, you should usually work in this view.
 Action pop-up menu: Contains commands to modify the current selection. This is also
where you access the Import Panasonic P2 window preferences.
 Column headings: Columns display clip properties and metadata. You can use
column headings the following ways:
 Click a column heading to sort clips by this property. Click the column heading
again to reverse the sort order.
 Control-click to show or hide additional columns such as Format, Compressor, and
Shooting Date.
 Reorder column headings by dragging them to the left or right.
 Clip properties: Most clip properties are read-only, but you can change some
properties, such as Name, Scene, Shot, In, and Out, by double-clicking them, pressing
Enter, or pressing Return. If a clip name is selected, you can press Tab to edit the
name of the next clip in the Browse area.
Changes to P2 clip properties are temporarily stored within the current project, but
they remain unchanged on the P2 volumes. This means that:
 Before ingesting a clip in the Import Panasonic P2 window, you can revert back to
a clip’s original properties by Control-clicking the clip and choosing Revert to
Original Metadata.
 While logging clips to a new project in the Import Panasonic P2 window, you won’t
see clip property modifications that you made while logging clips in other projects.
In other words, P2 clip properties can only be modified on a per-project basis.