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 Adobe 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 About spanned clips.

When exporting to P2 from a sequence with a 5.1-channel master track, Adobe 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 Map audio channels.

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 Adobe Premiere Pro translates clip and XMP metadata into P2-standard fields that can be read by P2 viewers, cameras, servers, and P2 “decks.”

Select the sequence or clip in a Timeline panel or Project panel.
(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.
Choose File > Export > Media.
From the Format drop-down menu, select P2 Movie.
(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 Adobe 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.
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, Adobe Premiere Pro creates one for you at the destination.
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.
Click OK.

The sequence or clip is added to the CONTENTS folder of the disk or P2 card, with the video MXF file added to the VIDEO folder, the audio MXF file added to the AUDIO folder, the icon file added to the ICON folder, and the metadata XML file added to the CLIP folder.