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P2 into Final Cut from Panasonic AG-HPH20
I have previously had no problem getting P2 files shot in DVCpro HD 50 into Final Cut 5.1.4 running on my G4 Powerbook under Tiger loading through the PCMCIA card slot. That machine died so I have just bought a new Macbook Pro.7i quad core 2.2 GH with 72000 HD. We shot some of the same kind of footage over the weekend and tried to load it from a Panasonic AF-HPG20 field recorder in FCP 5.1.4. It appears in the pre-view window as it should do and appears to ingest but when I try to play a clip it changes to a red exclamation marker and says there is no data. When I look on the drive its not there. I tied copying the shots with the contents and last shot text file to my hard drive. No problem but when I try to import to FCP I get the same problem and it says it can not recognise some of the files. I have tried updating the Panasonic driver on my new machine to Snow Lep but still the same problems. Looked as lots of things on the forum but still no joy. Any ideas anyone. I would really appreciate your help. Apple assured me 5.1.4 would run OK on the new machine. I don’t really want to buy FCP 7 just now as I guess they are close to releasing the new version.
Derek
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Does the clip plays normally in your camera?
You might need to repair clip in camera (consult your manual).Regarding the new FCP and waiting… new FCP X, just announce it appears to be very
different from all previous versions, so maybe you’d want to go and get FCP 7 while you can
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The clips were shot by a professional DOP on a Panasonic HPX 30009 broadcast camera so I don’t have it here. They seemed to play OK when we reviewed on the shoot. They play fine on the field recorder he lent me (Panasonic AG-HPG20) to ingest them from but I have to return this in a day or two. I am going to try them with a system at work running FCP7 to see if it works on that. Will also check out FCP X info.
Meanwhile anybody got any other ideas on original request.
Many thanks
Derek
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Try changing your scratch disk location in FCP’s system settings. Sometimes red exclamation means the file could not be saved or the disk is full. Make sure your scratch disk location has the proper permissions for writing.
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Art Aldrich
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Thanks for the suggestion. I don’t think it can be this as its a new drive with plenty of space. Also I took it along to another facility and tried ingesting using FCP 7. No problem worked quickly and simply.
My conclusion is that FCP 5.1.4 can not handle the G20 recorder for some reason.As a work around for now I have ingested the files through FCP 7 using another project name even though I can not run the FCP 7 project on my machine with FCP 5.1.4. However as FCP makes the files into .mov files I was able to drag these into the 5.1.4 project with no problems and everything runs fine. I think this is because FCP does all the work in Quicktime. As I have the latest version of this it does not seem to be a problem handling these movs. Not an ideal solution but one that gets me out of jail for now.
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