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HELP! P2 Content
OK brilliant men and women I’m desperate for help. For the last year I’ve been editing P2 media on my FCP system flawlessly. (Currently running Powermac G5 dual with 10.4.11., FCP 6 and Quicktime 7.4.1) But now, all of the sudden I’m having no success loading P2 media into my Log & transfer window. the L&T window opens fine but it is when I “add custom path” I direct it to the appropriate files on my Hard drives but it doesn’t load shots into the Log and transfer window. Nothing happens. Is this due to my quicktime upgrade? How do I remedy this? Please help Im desperate!
Marty N
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7 Replies
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Don’t use the add custom path, hit the folder with the plus sign on it on the left of the L&T window and direct FCP to the enclosing folder with CONTENTS and lastclip.txt.
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Jeremy, I tried your suggestion and again, nothing happens.
Marty N
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Is there anything in the folder?
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Yes, I have several folders I know there’s media in.
Marty N
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And you trashed your preferences?
Quit FCP first.
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DO you have FXFactory installed?
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Martin:
If the FXFactory thing isn’t causing this, you are the victim of the QT 7.4.1 DRM fiasco. One of my clients had this issue and the only way to resolve it is to downgrade your QuickTime with the Pacifist utility. You need to go back down to QT 7.3.
In it’s infinite wisdom, Apple has put a lot of DRM routines into the newest versions of QT, largely due to studio pressure since they are selling more television and films on iTunes. I have seen this problem manifest in several ways..
1. On my friend’s MBP, once he installed QT 7.4.1, his system preferences pane became corrupt and he could not boot the system prefs.
2. Same friend also could capture any P2 clips under 10 minutes but all of the clips over 10 minutes played with just a gray screen with sparkles.
3. Have heard of QT 7.4.1 basically can cripple AE for some users
4. Many users are unknowingly loading the newer versions of QT by just auto update for iTunes. This downloads QT 7.4.1
5. The Pacifist utility costs $20.00 and seems to work pretty well. I have referred three other users t Pacifist and in each case, it got them back going. https://www.charlessoft.com/Pacifist_Documentation/English/index.html
You can research the exact procedure (it is involved) over at the http://www.kenstone.net website.
6. I have also heard of several users going through exactly what you are going through too as far as the log & transfer window with P2. Unfortunately Apple has really screwed up QuickTime for pro users. Beginning at v 7.3.1, with each new update of QuickTime, Apple has tried to fix the things that they have broken on previous versions, but with each newer version, they have broken other weird random things. The main problem is that QuickTime is the backbone of all of the video apps so these little bugs can have long ranging ramifications that nobody even knows about until users start screaming.
Good luck,
Dan
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