HVX Spanned Clip import issue in FCP 5.1.4

[Shane Ross]

Make sure that in the import prefs (the sprocket drop down menu) you have REMOVE PULLDOWN unchecked…UNchecked…

Shane

Littlefrog Post
http://www.lfhd.net

[Steve Galbraith]

I unchecked the remove pulldown box and the same result occured.

[Mitch Ives]

[Unclejunebug] “I am importing all my HVX P2 footage and I’m having problems importing the spanned clips. Complete clips that are not spanned have no issue. When using the Import > Panasonic P2 function in FCP, I drag and drop a spanned clip (with both sections) in the import window. A red exclamation mark comes up and nothing happens. A little while after that if I roll over the exclamation mark a small window appears that says “No Data.””

First, are all of your P2 files on a single hard drive? Second, are all of the groups present in the P2 Import window before you try an import them into FCP? P2 Import needs them all together so it can assemble the spanned ones into a single clip prior to importing them into FCP.

I discovered this when I shot 160 minutes non-stop while hot-swapping P2 cards. In FCP, it needed them all in at once in order to properly assemble the spanned clips. Otherwise, I encountered what you had. Once I brought in each folder worth one at a time, before selecting them all and importing, the result was a single clip that was 160 minutes long.

Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
mitch@insightproductions.com

Apple Certified Trainer: Final Cut Pro 5

[Steve Galbraith]

Thanks for all the ideas and I’m glad to say that the issue is now resolved.

I was arranging each day’s footage in a folder for each day with subfolders for each time I would dump a card.

Day #1
– Day 1.1
– Day 1.2
– etc…

The problem ended up being the # in the title of the root folders. Once I changed the names to Day 1, Day 2, etc… it ended up working no problem.

Steve

[Gary Adcock]

[Unclejunebug] “Day #1
– Day 1.1
– Day 1.2
– etc…”

thats because the P2 cards work in a standard windows fat32 formating and those would be illegal characters in the naming convention. –Stay away from the periods also, use underscores instead.

gary adcock
Studio37
HD & Film Consultation
Post and Production Workflows