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A typical workflow for P2 media is as follows:
1
Shoot to the P2 card in the camera.
2
Move the P2 card to your workstation, and copy the files to your local 
hard drive.
3
Edit the files natively in Adobe Premiere Pro.
4
Export the project to Blu-ray Disc, to DVD, to the Web, or even back to the 
P2 native format.
Sony XDCAM
Sony XDCAM refers to a family of cameras that record to optical disc or SxS 
flash memory cards. Most of the cameras in the XDCAM and XDCAM HD lines 
record to optical disc. The XDCAM EX1 and EX3 models record to SxS flash 
memory cards.
You can remove the optical disc from your camera and place it in a deck attached 
to your workstation. Or you can insert the SxS flash memory card into a PCI 
Express card slot in your workstation and read it as a flash drive. In either case, it is 
recommended that you copy the files from the optical disc or SxS flash card to your 
local hard drive for best performance rather than attempting to edit directly from 
the source media.
Adobe Premiere Pro offers native support for optical disc XDCAM content 
recorded as standard-definition DVCAM and for all high-definition XDCAM HD 
formats recorded at 18 Mbps, 25 Mbps, and 35 Mbps.
Adobe Premiere Pro supports the Sony XDCAM EX, XDCAM HD, and XDCAM 
422 formats.
A typical workflow for XDCAM EX media is as follows:
1
Shoot to the SxS card in the camera.
2
Move the SxS card to your workstation, and copy the files to your local 
hard drive.
3
Edit the files natively in Adobe Premiere Pro.
4
Export the project to Blu-ray Disc, DVD, or the Web.

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LESSON 3 Importing and Managing Tapeless Media
AVCHD
AVCHD is a recording format generally used in consumer cameras to record 
high-definition video to a tapeless format. AVCHD is not limited to a single 
vendor’s camera or family of cameras; it’s used in many brands of consumer 
high-definition cameras including various models from Sony and Panasonic. 
Compared to HDV cameras, which are based on the MPEG-2 codec, AVCHD 
achieves higher compression and lower data rates using the H.264 codec.
Cameras using the AVCHD record onto one of three types of media: