HVX P2 project needs work

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Tyler Dixon] ” ARe there still problems with P2 and the latest QT 7.4.5 (25)?”

Not that I have seen, no.

What do you mean it won’t recognize the files?

[Gary Gowman]

I have LTO tapes from the original project that were then put on G Raids for re edit/cc. None of the clips work. I get the messaged unrecognized blah blah. The guys that worked here on it befor said they stayed in QT 7.2 to work only on this P2 project because there were issues with P2 and QT. I believe it was an HVX 200 shoot.

The files have no extension (mov) in the the filenames. Yet they open still on the old QT 7.2 computer. I did open some on that computer and resaved with QT (7.2) and those work on all of our updated FCS stations. But I can’t resave all the clips for original sources for a 90 minute movie. 🙁

BTW, I posted earlier on Tyler’s computer.

Gary Gowman-Video Director
Louisiana Media Services
4K, 2K/DI, HDcamSR
Assimilate Scratch and FCS2/Kona3 Suites
Full Audio Production

[Jeremy Garchow]

Cool. Thanks for letting me know Gary not Tyler.

Do you have access to the original CONTENTS folders or just the QT movies?

[Gary Gowman]

Hi Jeremy,
We just recovered some files from an LTO tape that appears to have the final project file (.fcp) and relinked the original source media. But it still has to be re colored and edited on the older QT 7.2 system because of what I have described. At least I can now finish what needs to be done.

But I still do not understand why it has to be. I am guessing because they imported all the HVX footage on that older QT version and the newer versions of QT are not backward compatible. In other words, I could reimport “all” the original files again, but that is too time consuming.

Best regards,

Gary Gowman-Video Director
Louisiana Media Services
4K, 2K/DI, HDcamSR
Assimilate Scratch and FCS2/Kona3 Suites
Full Audio Production

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Gary Gowman] “At least I can now finish what needs to be done. “

Fair enough.

[Gary Gowman] “But I still do not understand why it has to be. I am guessing because they imported all the HVX footage on that older QT version and the newer versions of QT are not backward compatible.”

COuld be, P2 support has gotten incrementally better since ‘way back then’.

[Gary Gowman] “n other words, I could reimport “all” the original files again, but that is too time consuming. “

It doesn’t take that long, way faster than tape capture. As long as the p2 data is loaded in the log and transfer window, simply select a p2 clip in the browser, right click and choose batch capture and FCP will do the rest. It’s much faster to make sure that FCP is tracking the data right now, than it is to do later.

Jeremy