Need Urgent Help: Import Failed on Single Clip

[Flemming Sorvin]

Hi Megan,

I’ve had that issue before and what helped for me was copying over the entire file structure of the card (I’m assuming you’re coming from a card-based media source) onto your edit system’s drive storage.

I would make a new folder on your edit drive somewhere, name it the same as the troublesome card’s name (cam_sd for example), and then copy over the entire contents. Once copied, try importing the footage from the new folder, cross your fingers, and see what happens.

And then sometimes that doesn’t work too. Then I would switch over to Premiere to pull in the footage, do an export and import that to my FCP X library.

Hope that helps.

[Mads Nybo jørgensen]

Echoing Flemming’s advice.

In general, unless in the field, do not work directly off the camera.
Worth noting that your Canon camera may be “splitting” the files on recording internally, to match the restrictions of the camera “operating system”/software. And, that FCPX may not be able to combine the two or more files when imported directly from camera.

FCPX has been known to corrupt external media drives in the past, so when copying off the files (Full file structure), make sure to have a copy on a back-up drive, or cloud storage or similar.

As an added comment, IMHO:
FCPX in comparison to Adobe PPro, has only a limited amount of files that it likes to work with, and even then it likes to transcode your files to a new .mov format.