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File Error, Quicktime doesn’t recognize, directory/resource issue?
I’m running into a problem when capturing footage and I don’t know if it’s with my external hard drive (LaCie 250G), Final Cut, or something else. This has happened a couple of times when I “capture now” an hours worth of footage. When it gets to the end of the tape, the capture freezes, I can’t ESC, I try to open my capture scratch folder and get the spinning ball, I can’t force quite Final Cut Pro HD even, and my drive shows that nearly 90Gigs have been eaten up! I end up powering down my computer and restarting.
Upon restart I have gained back 57 Gigs of that space on the drive, I can see the capture, however Final Cut cannot import them into the project stating “File Error: 25 unrecognized, 0 access denied, 25 unknown.” Quicktime states that it is “not a file that Quicktime understands.” I re-indexed, checked the permissions, and run a disk utility. I’m recapturing the footage now, but what’s going on here?
Thanks in advance for the help!
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If you haven’t done so already, try trashing the preference files for final Cut Pro. Here’s how to do it right and why it needs to be done, occasionally:
https://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/trashing_fcp_prefs.html
Run the program DiskWarrior to rebuild the directory on the LaCie drive, which will allow FCP to have proper access to your video files.
You didn’t mention if you’ve always had trouble capturing big files to your external LaCie, and little ones capture without issue. Make sure your LaCie drive is formatted in Mac OS Extended. I’m sure you know about that sort of thing already but I’m just trying to cover the basics.
Make sure you don’t have any virus protection software running in the background while you’re trying to capture. This will interfere with the capture process.
– Don
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Capture Now really should only be used as a last resort when there is no timecode or for a similar reason. It shouldn’t be your status quo for capturing. I don’t know if that’s what you do, but in case it is…
It can create more problems than it might seem to solve, as you have witnessed.
You run the risk of losing far less time by breaking your tape up into 10-15 minute chunks, or at the very least setting in and out points and giving FCP some hard numbers to deal with. What is likely happening is FCP is hitting the end of the tape where the timecode stops and freaking out. You can avoid this by setting an outpoint that is at least a few frames before the timecode actually runs out.
debe
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