Here's the situation: There are three "rolls" and I only have copies of the original P2 cards. My assistant (a year ago) copied the media on two backup drives and then transcoded the media to Avid DNxHD files etc...and all seemed well. I've only been working with the first two rolls...

Okay, I think I might be onto something. A workaround that I'm trying right now is as follows: I found a site ( link here ) that sells the XD codecs (EX, HD, HD 422) for PC. It took some searching but there is someone out there doing it. I downloaded a demo and installed it. It works! I can now watch...

I got a 29.97fps clip from a digital photocamera (Casio exilim EX-F1) that I have to put into a 25fps HDV Project. I can import it to a bin directly, but motion is very choppy. I loaded the clip into quicktime pro and saved is a sequence of .tif files, which I then imported to my bin. That looks OK,...

Anyone have experience with both Final Cut Pro and Avid Express Pro HD (and P2 .mxf files)? I sent a client's editor DVCPRO 50 (SD) footage shot with a Panasonic HPX170 (at 30P) on P2 cards as .mxf files saved to an external hard drive. He uses an AVID Express Pro HD v. 5.2.4 and said that he could...