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Final Cut Pro Log and Transfer
I am using FCP 6 and I imported P2 footage from an external hard drive into FCP using Log and Transfer yesterday. It worked great. Today I am working on that again and when I click add clip to queue it puts the clip in the queue window area but the status has an exclamation mark instead of a spinning circle. It says unknown error when I hover over the clip. I have tried restarting, zapping pram, importing footage from original portable hard drive, placing fcp file on desktop and another ext hard drive instead of original hard drive, opening new project etc. Please help.
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#36 – One or More P2 files failed to import.
Shane’s Stock Answer #36 – “One or more clips failed to import…”
Very often in the field with this camera the camera operator will delete clips from the P2 card that they just don’t like. That is the beauty of this camera. But, the still for that video file (located in the CLIP folder in the CONTENTS folder)…the still that you see when you are in the P2 Import window…is not deleted. So you will see the image, and the name, but the video file would have been deleted.
What you can do it compare the file names in the VIDEO folder and CLIP folder and see if anything is missing. If something is, then you know what the problem is. You can then just import the rest a few at time, skipping that one.
ALSO…in the P2 Import window…in the P2 Browser, there is a little sprocket drop down menu. Click on that and choose PREFERENCES. Uncheck REMOVE PULLDOWN and then try importing again.
ALSO…make sure your file names aren’t too long. Try shortening them and see if that works.
ALSO make sure that the folders that contain the CONTENTS folder doesn’t have any odd characters like /!@#$%^&*()?.
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Wow thanks for the detailed information. I would like to say it was one of those issues, but actually it was a more obvious problem … although some people might overlook it too … under system settings/scratch disk, I needed to select video and audio capture and set it to a hard drive with more space! I wondered why it had 0 Free Space at the bottom of the window. Duh. Thanks for your help.
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