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CONTENTS folder incomplete
Hi!
We shot with an HVX200 and an external drive directly connected to it rather then actual P2 cards. The first two loads were fine, the last two were missing a CONTENTS folder (the cameraman forgot to do some converting in the disc), yet the MXF and XML files were there. I’ve created a contents folder myself and separated AUDIO and VIDEO files, put them in there. Everything is now there exept for the ICONS, it remains an empty folder (that I created). FCP 6 now recognizes something, yet without thumbnails and a red exclamation point. I’ve come a long way (from ‘invalid directory structure’) but now I’m stuck.
Anything?
Thanks!!
Frederike
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8 Replies
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Are the files still on the firestore?
Do you have the xmls in the clips folder?
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The firestore has been returned to the rental place unfortunately.
And yes, the xmls are in the CLIP folder. They were (originally, when I hadn’t created the CONTENTS folder and it’s subfolders yet) in the log folder outside the CONTENTS folder, and I put them all in the CLIP folder.
Thanks! I hope you can help me!
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Well, it’s going to be hard to tell without seeing the media/metadata.
Did you just throw everything in to one folder structure or did you try and make individual cards?
You would have to read the XML data to line everything up.
Instead, you can use a program like MXF4mac (contact them first about your problem) to read the native MXf files.
Jeremy
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I have four ‘cards’ (they are not really cards as we shot on this hard disc, but they’re four ‘parts). Two of them were fine and I recreated the not fines ones like the fine ones…
Here’s a screenshot of the one I created. I put all the audio in the AUDIO folder, the video in the VIDEO folder and the xmls in de CLIP folder… the other ones are empty…
Also, I can open both video and audio files seperately with quicktime and in final cut, but I can’t bring them together?
Thanks again!!
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What are all the other folders in there (0-9)?
If you select both the audio and video folders in the CONTENTS folder and hit option-command-i how big does it say, and how big where the cards you were shooting on?
Jeremy
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You really need that Firestore so that you can use the option “ORGANIZE FOR P2” or whatever the feature is called. If you want FCP to be able to import it.
Shane
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Shane is dead right-on on this one. You always have to organize P2 clips if you use that mode when capturing footage with the FS. And you should have done research on the Firestore before you used it so you would know never to shoot in P2 mode with the FS in the first place!! Always use the Quicktime mode and you never run into these FCP ingest problems!!
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The first two days we shot in P2 mode with the firestore and all was perfectly fine.
The files 1-9 are all just empty.I’m trying to manually bring sound and audio into FCP and export them as a clip. Lot of unnesecary work but hopefully that’ll work.
If not, I’ll try to re-rent the firestore.
Thanks for your help.
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