P2 content will not show up in Log and Transfer window

[Nicole Haddock]

If you have the FX Factory plugins and haven’t run the update from them, it messes up the P2 import. Other than that, have you trashed your preferences, rebooted and tried again?

[Dustin Parsons]

I do have FX Factory. That’s probably it.

I have tried rebooting but no trashing preferences yet… don’t know why, that should have been the first thing I tried.

Thanks for the suggestions. I’ll let you know if that works.

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[Jeremy Garchow]

It’s FX Factory, and also Perian has been known to wonk up L&T.

[Hector Berrebi]

hi Dustin

[Dustin Parsons] “I got it to work by transferring straight from the camera into FCP “

what do you mean by that?
did you set the camera to USB device mode and and captured through it via L&T?

did your L&T worked well with P2 before?
did you install any new software recently?
Paragon installs can mess up L&T too

i have seen L&T work oddly in several cases on different systems.
these steps worked with varying success.

1. wait. sometimes, strangely, it takes longer time than usual for L&T to load your files

2. trash all prefs for fcp and QT including user data prefs, do a permission repair and restart your system

3. i did have a system where nothing we tried helped and i eventually had to do a complete reinstall of OS and FCP.

good luck

Hector Berrebi
Schibber Group
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[Dustin Parsons]

Oh man, not Perian too! I love that little plugin.

UPDATE:
• I ended up trashing FX Factory because I never used it
• Trashed FCP preferences and rebooted my computer

After doing that I got one card to populate the Log and Transfer window but when I tried dragging the second card in before ingesting and, again, nothing happened.

So I’m capturing card 1 right now on its own. I’ll try uninstalling Perian and hopefully that’ll let me do more than one card at a time.

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Mac Pro | Leopard 10.5.5
2.66GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon | 4GB Ram
Final Cut Pro Studio 2 | Avid Media Composer

[Dustin Parsons]

I plugged the camera into the computer via Firewire 400 and dragged the CONTENTS and LASTCLIP.txt file into the L&T window.

No new software or anything like that. Everything was working last week.

I haven’t tried trashin QT Prefs or repairing permissions. I’ll try that and see if it helps.

Again, does anyone know of a program that will do the same thing as the L&T function? I’d rather be troubleshooting 1 program than FCP and QT and Perian and FX Factory and whatever else might be affecting this.

Thanks for the feedback.

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Mac Pro | Leopard 10.5.5
2.66GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon | 4GB Ram
Final Cut Pro Studio 2 | Avid Media Composer

[Hector Berrebi]

i thought you meant L&T wasn’t working at all…

look into MXF4MAC https://mxf4mac.com/

Hector Berrebi
Schibber Group
prePost Consulting

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Hector berrebi] “look into MXF4MAC”

I second MXF4mac.

Have a look at a tutorial I did here:

https://library.creativecow.net/articles/garchow_jeremy/dvc_pro_hd.php

This will skip log and transfer and allow native P2 MXF editing within FCP.

Jeremy

[Shane Ross]

Turn off wireless (airport) networking, and then ethernet networking if needed. I have run into the issue of L&T not seeing the P2 dump folder for like 2 min with those turned on.

Shane

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[William Carr]

Don’t know what Mac you have, but you wrote:

“What I’ve done:
• Transferred the entire P2 card (CONTENTS folder and LASTCLIP.txt file) from the camera to a folder on my computers hard drive (no names were changed) ”

If you’re trying to use your main internal (system) drive the L&T behavior can be unpredictable, erratic, undependable. L&T may work fine one day and not the next as your internal drive reallocates spaces for everything else your Mac does. So if that’s the case try a FW 800 external at least.