FCPX P2 importing failure

[Blake Hodges]

Hey all,
I’ve been running in to the same problem importing P2 media. You know what we all have in common? This magic number:

720

Now that I have put some thought to it, I remember seeing a post in the Apple Forums (not taking the trouble to find it right now), where someone said they actually talked to an Apple Rep and they had said that there is indeed a known glitch/inability to import 720p footage of any kind from P2 media. They said “they are working on this.” THis is the best I got.

In the mean time….. Log/Transfer with FCP7? Ay ay ay…..

For the record, I actually love FCPX, just not with little treats like this.

[Alban Egger]

I sometime shave the same problem. It occur random, not the same clips.
My workaround is to set In and Out points in the import window!

This is troublesome when you have dozens of clips, but the only way I found to force FCPX to reliably import the clips.

The other workaround is to have the original material in place. FCPX will point at the “card archive” even if the clip was not imported properly. This means double diskspace for the cards that didn´t work, but it works for me.

[David Cleverly]

I had the very same problem suddenly with FCPX 10.0.6. trying to import 1080i P2 files. Same frustrating error message.

It appears my problem was related to changing to importing to a USB drive. Previously I had been importing to a firwire drive that never gave me a problem. As soon as I went to USB, the problem started. Put my events back on a FW drive and the problems stopped. Fingers crossed.

I suspect for me it has something to do with throughput/transfer speeds.

Cheers,

[Daniel Lagarini hinrichsen]

Encountering the same problem here…
And I agree its random wise.
After some attempts and off we go, still having problems with one clip in particular, 720…

[Ken Miller]

Similar problem here. I shot with a Panasonic HPX 170, in DVCPRO50 SD. Clips look fine on P2 card, and in the FCP X archive files I made, but when I import from the archive, the audio disappears either completely, or mostly–and what’s left is very out of sync with the video. Called Apple, their FCP X person had no idea (and wanted $99 to investigate). Tried uninstalling and reinstalling FCP X to no avail, same problem whether on my iMac or MBP, and whether using 10.0.7 or 10.0.6. Really at a loss to understand why FCP X is killing the audio. Had no problem with the audio from my Panasonic DVX-B, which shoots on mini-DV and not P2 cards. Foolishly I deleted clips from P 2 card so can’t try importing into FCP 7. Would love some input on this one. Thanks.