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“Spanned” clip problems
I shot a conference for 2, 8 hour days with the hvx 200. Since I shot the clips longer than 20 mins and larger than 4 gigs (on 16gbt P2 cards), all video is considered spanned when I try to log and transfer in fcp. I have tried to look for the answer in existing posts, but can’t.
I used one card at a time and never let it run to the second card (so that is not the issue).
In fcp, there is no other clip that they are considered spanned to, so when I try and transfer, it is waiting for the “other non-existing” spanned section, and will not let me use the converted Quicktime file.
I think I understand the cause (P2 cards are split in 4gbt increments, so if a video is larger/longer, it is spanned on the card), however not the solution.
I have no idea what to do. I read in a bunch of forums, with no luck. It is so weird that this isn’t dealt with all of the time.
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If you recorded footage on one card, and it says SPANNED…it is because it is detecting all the separate clips on that card. If it is a 16GB card, it will have 4 clips that are spanned…but that will show up as one clip in the L&T window. That is why it says SPANNED.
Shane
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Thanks Shane. I understand that part, previous posts helped there. But I want to know how to transfer properly. They come up after transferring with ! next to it, waiting for another nonexistent clip. Even if it is split amongst 4 spanned files, they show up as one continuous video in log and transfer. I would like to know how to just go ahead and transfer.
Let me know if my blabbering makes sense. Thanks
alex@hammeredconcepts.com
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#36 – One or More P2 files failed to import.
Shane’s Stock Answer #36 – “One or more clips failed to import…”
Very often in the field with this camera the camera operator will delete clips from the P2 card that they just don’t like. That is the beauty of this camera. But, the still for that video file (located in the CLIP folder in the CONTENTS folder)…the still that you see when you are in the P2 Import window…is not deleted. So you will see the image, and the name, but the video file would have been deleted.
What you can do it compare the file names in the VIDEO folder and CLIP folder and see if anything is missing. If something is, then you know what the problem is. You can then just import the rest a few at time, skipping that one.
ALSO…in the P2 Import window…in the P2 Browser, there is a little sprocket drop down menu. Click on that and choose PREFERENCES. Uncheck REMOVE PULLDOWN and then try importing again.
ALSO…make sure your file names aren’t too long. Try shortening them and see if that works.
Shane
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I actually tried this, I was able to find your post about this from a while ago. But still the same.
I never deleted any files within the camera, and only videos that are longer than 15 or so minutes/larger than 4 or so gigs have this problem, anything shorter transfers fine.
I have also read the reasons why this happens with longer clips, I would just like to know how to make it work in Final Cut. I feel like I am missing something really simple. I would like to avoid purchasing another program to do this.
alex@hammeredconcepts.com
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SHANE!! IT WORKED!! I think.
One so far. I will try the other 12 hours of footage.
Thanks so much for your help!
Alexalex@hammeredconcepts.com
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I had this same issues, and I had tried EVERYTHING. I finally realized after hours of discouragement that the reason my spanned clips were not working was because my hard-drive was formatted as MS-DOD FAT32, which subsequently means that the hard drive prevents clips that exceed 4gb to be processed through log and transfer. I changed my capture scratch to another hard-drive that was formatted as os-x extended journaled and everything went through just fine : ) Goodluck!
Julie Grimm
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How did it work?- what worked for you? Ive tried everything.
The Spanned clip that I have just will not import. My hard drive is formatted correctly. I tried unticking the “remove advanced pulldown” in preferences and then importing them again. I only shot on 1 card. When I transferred the files onto my hard drive I made sure to also transfer the LASTCLIP.TXT as some people seem to think that is associated with the problem. I can view the clip in the log and transfer window, and so can be sure that the clip has not just clipped itself to one of the other clips that I had successfully imported.
Im using FCP 6.0.5, using a MacBookPro, harddrive formatted to MAC OS Extended, a 16 Gig card for my P2 Camera, and a duel adapter card reader. Any clues? Can’t get an answer anywhere. -
I am having this problem as well, have a spanned clip, examined the file folders like you said found no differences, I can preview the entire video clip in the P2 window, tried downloading P2 CMS and was only able to get 12 minutes of the 31 minute clip, changed scratch disk drives, no luck 🙁
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@shane ross – thanks for post. I simply unchecked the “remove pull down” button and all my clips were Logged and Transferred properly. saved me lots of time scratching my head. appreciated.
MacBook Pro
Mac OSX version 10.4.11
2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
4 GB DDr SDRAM
FCP 6.0
G-Raid 2 Tb external hard drive
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