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Ingesting P2 Footage in FCP
Hey all,
When ingesting P2 footage in FCP 5.1.2 sometimes ‘spanned’ comes up next to the reel name. This happens when you add to consecutive reels to the cue before actually ingesting them. I can only assume that this means that there is footage spanned between the two reels. The problem is that you can not ingest this spanned clip, it gives you the !. Now, I know there is footage in these clips. I can get around it by ingesting the reels one at a time (and deleting the previous one before adding the next) but, there has got to be a way to get around this spanned business. Any advice is appreciated.
This is also my first post….is there any way to attatch a screen shot?
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[pc_beckner] “This is also my first post….is there any way to attatch a screen shot?”
See https://tinyurl.com/sh7o4 for instructions on embedding images here at the Cow.
Oh, and I’ll let these udder bovines answer the hard questions. ;o)
Best,
Ron Lindeboom
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I think both have to be mounted. I think spanned means it’s across 2 cards. If you camera has 2 card slots it’ll keep recording onto the next card. So it needs both cards (folders) to be mounted in the window. Working on my first P2 project right now and ran across a couple spanned clips, but I was mountng multiple folders at once and all the “spanned” clips came in just fine.
A lesson of wisdom I’m told… DO NOT change the name of the clip anywhere for any reason. That little alpha numeric code is gold to relinking if you ever have a crash. Sure you’ve got timecode, but if you don’t have the clip/file name you’ll have to look at each clip’s timecode to figure out which one to relink. Kinda backwards compared to tape.
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