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32kb Quicktime Clips on P2 Import
I am having problems importing spanned P2 clips from my Firestore. I don’t know if this is a Final Cut issue or a Firestore issue.
When I go to import spanned clips everything seems fine but nothing shows up in my Browser. I check the Capture Scratch and I see the clip but it is only a 32KB file that will not play. Sometimes when I hit Add Clip to Queue again it will import. So in these cases I have to try to import the clip twice for it to import.
Other times I can hit Add Clip to Queue as many times as I like and all I get are additional 32KB files that I can’t play.
I am 6 minutes into importing a 10 minute spanned clip (I have broken it into smaller clips). The first 2 clips I had to import twice to work. The next 6 were fine the first time. And now I can’t import anymore – just keep getting those 32KB files.
If you have any suggestions I appreciate your help!
I am using Final Cut 5.1.4. My Firestore is version 2.0.3.
Ben
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First of all, hit the Focus Enhancements site and upgrade your Firestore to the 3.0 firmware version. It fixes tons of bugs and adds new features you’ll love. Like recording in QuickTime so you don’t have to mess with that nasty P2 Import window. The version of the FS-100 firmware you’re on really isn’t the best. The firmware update is only about $30, I believe. It’s the version I used in the FS-100 video guide listed on my site.
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Thank you. I was able to get all my clips downloaded. I would break the clip into smaller clips. Final Cut would typically let me import a few of the clips and then stop importing them again (and begin making them 32kb clips instead of the real clips).
Each time this happened I would save the project under a new name, quit final cut, open again under the new name and resume importing until it stopped working again and then I would save again under another name.
Big pain but the clips are all intact with the exception of my final 20 minutes of footage. When I looked at the Firestore folders I noticed that there was MXF Audio files for these clips but no MXF video files for the clips.
This was a 2 camera shoot with my Firestore camera being the A camera (with the audio from the stage mike going right into the XLR on the camera). The B camera footage (P2 cards) was fine but did not have the direct audio.
So what I did was grab a few of the MXF video clips from the first 40 minutes that did work and simply renamed them to match the audio clips where I was missing video.
I could then do a P2 import in final cut of these clips. While the audio did not match the video, at least I was able to import the higher quality audio which I will simply match up with my B camera footage and then I have useable clips.
There might be an easier way and I was lucky that I had a b camera but at the end I salvaged the job.
I am going to order the upgrade tonight. Thank you for the help.
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You REALLY, REALLY, need the 3.0 upgrade!
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– Tutorials at http://www.bbalser.com
– South Louisiana FCP Users Group
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