• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  P2 Material Final Cut does not import all files

  Posted by Esther Hassfurther on February 5, 2014 at 8:46 pm

  First of all, I am not a native english speaker so I hope I don’t have too many mistakes…

  I have p2 mxf files as a source material. I have ALL the files (Contents, Lastclip, 6 folders inside) copied from the P2 card.
  But when I log and transfer into final cut (exactly like in the tutorial) it won’t open all the files but leave out some. Apparently the missing clips are always somewhere between clip 1 and 20.

  Any Ideas?

  Esther Hassfurther replied 12 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Shane Ross

  February 6, 2014 at 1:13 am

  FCP will connect clips that are “spanned.” Meaning the camera breaks up the shots into 4GB chunks. If you do long takes, one take might be 2 or more MXF files. FCP will join those MXF files and make one clip. SO you might have 20 files, but really only like 8 shots…it’s broken up.

  Is that the case, or is there footage missing…really?

  Shane
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  Esther Hassfurther

  February 6, 2014 at 12:23 pm

  Hi Shane!

  I’m kinda embarrassed that I didn’t see that…
  Works perfectly, all the footage is there and actually I really appreciate that final cut merges the files together. I didn’t like the idea anyway that they are broken up (I found that out before).

  So thank you so much for being such a big help!

  Esther

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