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Lost the ability to import P2 files “Error-No Data”
I seem to have lost the ability to bring in P2 files. I’m getting the all too common warning for “Error-No Media” when I try to bring in the files. It happens whether I Log & Transfer from the original P2 cards or from files archived to hard drive. I searched the archives and found numerous references to the problem, but no real solutions. This worked fine two weeks ago when I brought in my last project. Not, it seems to be broken.
I recently did the OS updates for Leopard and that actually killed my ability to play back Mpeg-based files with audio. I got around that one by reloading the MPeg package separately from my Studio 2 install discs.
I’m hoping that the updates didn’t kill other functionality as well.
I’m running Final Cut 6.06, OS 10.5.8 and Quicktime 7.6.6
I’ve trashed my preferences, ran permissions repair and ran Disk Warrior on all drives. No effect on the problem.
Even though I’m still running FCP6, I’ve purchased Studio 2 a while ago, but I haven’t installed it yet. I did have to install the MPeg package from the Studio 2 discs to get the MPeg problem fixed. Is it possible that this most recent Pro Apps update is messing up older versions of Final Cut and Studio?
I need to clean off and archive these cards ASAP since I have another shoot scheduled for early next week. I also need to know that the existing files are good before reformatting the P2 cards.
Yet another problem that seems all to common but with no clear fix.
Thanks in advance,
TomLife moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.–Ferris Bueller
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This sounds strange to me.
I work with P2 since 6 years, never lost a file, have got the same system than you. No problems at all.
The first idea was trashing prefs. But you did this already. Do you have a older version of FCP 6 on a seperate HD?
My advice:
wipe out a HD or a partition of a HD completely.
Install OSX 5.5 or 5.6
Install Studio2 up to the version before 6.0.6 and restart the computer. This should do the job. What you also can do is run Techtool Pro and check permissions from there. It is far more advanced than first aid from apple and worth every penny.
I hope this helps.Rainer
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Did you reinstall the p2 drivers from panasonic? If working avc-I, did you install the codec from panasonic?
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I reinstalled the drivers since these are 32Gb “E” series cards. I thought “Yes! Of course”. I had already updated the firmware in the HVX200 and the cards work fine in the camera. I still have original the problem of transferring files after updating the drivers, however. The cards (or disk image) mount without any problems. I can look at the clips in the viewer, scrub through the video and all seems OK. The problem comes when I add them to the queue. The clips will attempt to convert but there is no progress on the bar. After a few seconds, the clip will stop and it will step to the next clip with the same results. All I get is the little red warning about no media.
And I like a lot of “One Man Bands” has one Do-All machine which would be very difficult to wipe the HD and do a clean install of everything.
Very frustrating indeed.
I’ll keep at it. Any more suggestions?
TomLife moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.–Ferris Bueller
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Weird…
Unchecking the “Remove advanced pulldown & duplicate frames in the L&T preferences menu did the trick.
Footage was shot 24p over 30.
TomLife moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.–Ferris Bueller
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Duh. I forgot about that little trick.
Nice work
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