Export to panasonic p2 format – Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 User Manual
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Last updated 11/6/2011
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About the Export Settings dialog box
Export Settings Format options
Export to Panasonic P2 format
When you have finished editing a sequence using assets from a Panasonic P2 card, you can export the edited sequence
to a hard disk or back to a P2 card. You can also export individual clips to the P2 format.
The maximum file size for a clip stored in the P2 format is 4 GB. When Premiere Pro exports clips or sequences larger
than 4 GB to P2 format, it exports them as groups of 4 GB spanned clips. For more information about clip spanning,
see “
When exporting to P2 from a sequence with a 5.1-channel master track, Premiere Pro can export the sequence into
files with four monaural channels each. This matches the channel array typically recorded by P2 cameras to P2 media,
and therefore makes for a simple workflow from P2 card to edit and back to P2 card. To enable this workflow for a
sequence, import the P2 clips into a project containing a 5.1-channel sequence and map the source channels to their
specified tracks before placing the clips into the sequence or exporting them to P2. For more information, see “
Note: Exporting to P2 from stereo sequences, which are the default type used in the various P2 presets, will produce files
with two mono tracks with the sequence’s stereo panning preserved.
When you export clips or sequences to P2 media Premiere Pro translates clip and XMP metadata into P2-standard
fields that can be read by P2 viewers, cameras, servers, and P2 “decks.”
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Select the sequence or clip in a Timeline panel or Project panel.
2
(Optional) If exporting from the Timeline, set a timeline marker, numbered “0” on the frame you want used as the
P2 icon for the exported.
If you do not set this marker, the first frame of the sequence will appear as the P2 icon by default.
3
Choose File > Export > Media.
4
From the Format drop-down menu, select P2 Movie.
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(Optional) Click the hot text in the Output Name field, and type a new filename.
This name is used as the value for the UserClipName element in the exported clip’s metadata XML file. The
UserClipName value appears in the Name column of the Project panel when the clip is imported back into Premiere
Pro. If you do not specify a name, the filename appears in the Name column. The name of the file is automatically
generated in conformance with the Panasonic P2 MXF format.
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Browse to the location where you want to save the file. You can navigate to the root of the mounted P2 card or to
your destination folder of choice, and click Save.
If a P2 compliant file structure is present at the destination, the exported clips will be added to the existing folders. If
the P2 compliant file structure isn’t present, Premiere Pro creates one for you at the destination.
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Define the section of the clip or sequence you want to export. In the Export Settings dialog box, drag the triangular
current-time indicator
to the desired in point, and click the Set In Point button
. Drag the triangular current-
time indicator to the desired out point, and click the Set Out Point button
.
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Click OK.