Again, I'd really love to get this corrected for you but I can't find any "Official Guides" that do NOT say to do the two steps.

Can you send me one that was particularly confusing to you?

Ok...I get you now. I just watched that tutorial again....Something got cut from the end of the "accessing P2..." tutorial...

I'm on it.

Well, I don't think I can get behind the software reminding me to do my job. This is part of what we do and having to add "Reminders" and "To Do Lists" to this already bloated code is not something I'd want to approach.

Blkdog, I was talking about the video tutorials here http://www.avid.com/p2/ and the ref here http://www.avid.com/p2/P2_Reference.pdf. Although the steps are mentioned, in roundabout way, you are not explicitly told that just putting clips to bin will keep the media online only for the first session. Unlike the much shorter and clearer user guide here http://community.avid.com/forums/post/313268.aspx which is really all you need.

I think generally the manuals and official docs could take a leaf out of this sort of straight forward step by step guide. I've been cutting on Avid for 6 years now and I'm kind of used to the odd way in which Tewksbury does this stuff. But new users, and especially those coming across from apple world, need all the help they can get.

Yeah, I edited my post above after I wrote it. Marianna has three folks in Tewksbury reviewing that tutorial now. Looks like someting got cut off the end of it.

Thanks for the heads up.

Thanks Blkdog, great stuff.

fiendish:

I do see how for a job with a couple of cards and a quick turnaround you could just use step 1, but anothing more than a couple of bins to re-import each time seems silly. 

Sorry for the vent chaps but it I just find this particularly bizarre. I thought i was ready for my job tomorrow but now each card has to consolidated to the media drives, tedious.

 We've been having our teething pains with P2 and have done a couple of different processes. 

What I'm doing now is if I'm sure the content of the cards is under 25 gig, I'm actually burning the P2 files to a Blu Ray disc before I do anything in Avid, that way I know I've got the content.  I then proceed to import the desired clips into Avid from the cards and then consolidate the media onto my Avid media drive. I then release the cards.

On peculiar thing I've found is I have to change the audio format when consolidating.  Avid was still taking the audio from the cards after the conslidation so when they were pulled, I had video but no audio.

I think this is, at times, more art than science.

Good Luck,

Tim Scarpino