FCP unable to read “Lastclip.TXT” file

[Jeremy Garchow]

[David Bogard] “I haven’t the foggiest idea why it suddenly is working again!”

Well, it’s usually not magic. My feeling is that you thought you have media on that P2 card, but in reality you don’t.

Jeremy

[John Fishback]

You have said a couple of times the FAT32 formatted on a Mac has no file limitation. As Jeremy said earlier, that is not true. It won’t write files bigger than 4GB. Now, I’m not an IS expert, but if the video fo;der has clips that total over 4GB the folder probably won’t be written. Certainly any files over 4GB won’t be written. If you’re transferring a partially filled P2and the total size is under 4GB then it will work.

John

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[David Bogard]

Thanks guys! I think i have the problem solved.

Pan Fan

[Jeremy Garchow]

Cool, what happened?

[David Bogard]

Actually, I am not that sure, but its loading fine now, as it had before. As to the suggestion I had nothing on the P2 card, I double/triple checked this over and over with different clips. They ALL played back in the camera fine, and I could transfer them to the desktop thru firewire and the camera itself. It was only when I tried to transfer the SAME clip to the PC that nothing was recognized to transfer. This is the same clip I had just transfered via firewire. Ergo: Magic? One of the strange tricks computers throw at us from time to time? I don’t know. I only hope it never happens again. I very much DO appreciate the help you guys gave me tho Jeremy, and you’re right of course, about the External drive and 4 GB. Don’t know where my mind was on that. Regards!

Pan Fan