Panasonic’s P2 technology has certainly become popular and with the introduction of a new P2 cameras at NAB the format is here to stay. The one complaint with this and all tapeless acquisition is managing the data. As with any data, poroper management starts with a good, standard naming convention. P2 guru Barry Green has a good explanation/tutorial of over at DVXUser.

When you look at those filenames, they sure do look random, don’t they? The thing is: they’re not. At least, not entirely. The last two characters in the filename are random, yes, but the first four characters are actually a sequential number. Let’s look at those filenames in a slightly different way

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