Can I edit HD footage in Ulead VideoStudio 11?

[spycraft]

I shot a film using an HVX-200 Panasonic camera and all the footage was recorded on P2 Cards. I then transfered the P2 cards into my hard drive. Is there any way I can import these videos in Ulead VideoStudio? The file format is MXF or XML and Ulead doesn't seem to support any of these but I am sure there must be a way.

THanks in advance everyone!

[sjj1805]

For those who are interested the P2 cards are defined in Wikipedia

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P2_(storage_media)  (copy and paste link on left to your browser)

and look like this:



Here is another review

P2 Cards are Memory cards in a PCMCIA format, roughly the same size as a credit card. P2 Cards house 4 high speed Secure Digital (yes, the same cards that digital still cameras use) laid out in a raid array. Currently in 2gb and 4gb sizes, an 8gb version will be released in the next few months. By being solid state and in a metal shell, the P2 cards are the most durable Video storage medium available. It's main competition, Sony¡¦s XDCam Blue Laser, is a disc based format, which can't take even a fraction of the 1500g's of shock the P2 cards can, let alone scratches, dust, dirt, etc

From the above it seems that these cards can be treated in much the same way as a standard hard drive.

Now for the formats mentioned.
Wikipedia Defnition of XML
Extensible Markup Language. This is a form of programming language mostly associated with creating internet pages though it is also used for other purposes

Its primary purpose is to facilitate the sharing of structured data across different information systems

Wikipedia Definition of MXF
Material eXchange Format (MXF) is a container format for professional digital video and audio media defined by a set of SMPTE standards.

A brief summary of MXF
MXF is a "container" or "wrapper" format which supports a number of different streams of coded "essence", encoded with any of a variety of codecs, together with a metadata wrapper which describes the material contained within the MXF file.

MXF has been designed to address a number of problems with non-professional formats. MXF has full timecode and metadata support, and is intended as a platform-agnostic stable standard for future professional video and audio applications.

MXF was developed to carry a subset of the Advanced Authoring Format (AAF) data model, under a policy known as the Zero Divergence Directive (ZDD). This enables MXF/AAF workflows between non-linear editing (NLE) systems using AAF and cameras, servers, and other devices using MXF.......
Additionally, many MXF systems produce split-file A/V (that is, the video and audio stored in separate files), and use a file naming convention which relies on randomly generated filenames to link them. Not only does this exacerbate the issue of knowing exactly what is in an MXF file without specialized tools, but it breaks the functionality of standard desktop computer techniques which are generally used to manipulate data on a level as fundamental as moving, copying, renaming, and deleting. Using a randomly generated filename is uninformative to the user, but changing the name breaks the loose database structure between files.

Also, MXF is not supported by several prominent applications, including Adobe After Effects. The implementation in other products, including Avid Newscutter, is particularly wanting, and highlights the identification issue by easily confusing XDCAM and P2 MXF flavours. Despite MXF's purpose as an easily archivable format, importing split-file MXF with external XML metadata intact can be brutally complicated.

Following taken from the second link above:

MXF? Folders? How do I review clips? Will me NLE see it?

Panasonic ships with a viewer program to view the MXF clips, and there is a codec to play the video only within windows media player. AVID and APPLE's NLE's will recognize MXF clips right out of the box, and untill the other NLE's support MXF, you can use Firestore's format converter to convert MXF AV files into normal NLE formats