Creating new P2 card images from selected clips

I need to send out some b-roll material that was shot on P2 cards. The footage was shot as a mix of interviews and b-roll - but I only want to send the b-roll.

I know Panasonic's PCMS will create a new "card" for each clip, but that would become truly cumbersome for the editor on the other end.

Is there a mac (or pc) utility that will let me mount my existing P2 card images, select the clips I want to export, and write them to a new P2 card image?

Thanks!

Tim McLaughlin
Final Cut and Avid Editor

Individual clips are required, as is retaining the original timecode.

Not an option for me.

Tim

Yeah - that's kind of what it's looking like.

I'm just sending them the P2 card images for now...

I'm truly surprised that no one has come up with software to do this.

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Tim McLaughlin
Final Cut and Avid Editor

Jeremy - I don't want to edit the clips on the card, I just want to select specific clips to export.

Let's say there's 150 clips on a P2 card image, but I only need to give someone 50 of them.

That is what I want to do - but leave the files in their original P2 (mxf?) format, with the original metadata and timecode, etc. Not a quicktime.

The last time someone gave me clips from PCMS, every clip they gave me was a separate P2 card! If I had been doing this in Avid, I would have shot someone.

So, am I missing something? Can PCMS select individual P2 clips and build a new P2 card image?

Tim McLaughlin
Final Cut and Avid Editor

Tim

CS4 Premiere Pro might be able to do this.

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Board of Directors
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group

[Paul Brubacher] "Not sure why you need a "P2 card image". Using P2CMS just select the clips you want and "EXPORT" not "INGEST" them to a new folder."

Brilliant. That's the way.

Jeremy