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Using AMA Plug-Ins
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Using the P2 AMA Plug-In
Panasonic’s P2 equipment records DV, DVCPRO, and DVCPRO 50 media on compact,
solid-state memory cards (P2 cards). Avid editing applications support editing of media directly
from these memory cards, without the need to capture. You can also write your sequence back to
the P2 card. Panasonic P2 video and audio media is recorded in MXF format.
The following are recognized as P2 cards by your Avid editing application:
• Panasonic P2 cards in an attached reader or camera or in a laptop PC Card slot.
• Synthetic P2 cards. A complete copy of a P2 card copied to the root of a drive or mounted as
a drive, for example, by mapping to a drive letter.
Each P2 card stores MXF files in two folders:
•(Windows) drive:\Contents\Audio
(Macintosh) Macintosh HD/Contents/Audio
•(Windows) drive:\Contents\Video
(Macintosh) Macintosh HD/Contents/Video
Examples of MXF audio and video files contained in the Audio and Video folders. Top: four audio tracks for a single
clip. Bottom: the corresponding video track.