“Incomplete” clips won’t import

[Don Greening]

[Dale Larsen] “I also have some files with the extension SMI instead of mp4.”

I believe the files with the .smi extension are files that contain relevant info about each of the companion video clips.

Anyway, follow the link below on the workflow required to solve your problem on how to stitch your incomplete clips back together when you have simply dragged the media from your cards on to a hard drive:

https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/162/867430

– Don

[Dale Larsen]

Don,
your workflow is exactly correct. thanks for that.
XDCAM sees all the clips now.

So to “Stitch” them back together, do I open the 2 folders that have the 2 pieces of the clip, and they “discover each other” cause they are opened together?

is there a stitch button?

(I am in the field today, so I can’t play with my XDCAM, but
curiosity is killing me)

[Sverker Hahn]

Yes, how do I stitch these clips together? I haven´t found a stitch button or function.

Sverker Hahn, Stockholm

Slower is better!

EX1
Canon XH A1
iMac Intel
Final Cut Studio

[David Grant]

Select the incomplete file in the XDCAM browser

Click the Logging button in the browser.

At the bottom of that field will be the Sub clips drop down with the .SMI file and the two part clips below it.

Click the clips check boxes and this will enable the import button which you click, that will import the file as a lovely Quicktime file to your import directory specified in your preferences.

Its painless once you do it once, not intuitive though.

Thanks to all for the previous posts it really helped me out.

[Eric Psihoules]

I realize this is years later, but you just have to go into the CLPR folder under the BPAV folder and then drag you specific clip folders into the source location. this should work, it did for me.