P2 – Invalid Directory Structure – please help

[François-michel Nolin maffolini]

Got ya on this one dude. Ill try to be precise cuz my english is not that good.

Im working presently on a project shooted in DVCPRO HD and we got some P2 shots as well. Yesterdays i was trying to import P2 shots (wich was previously transfered to an external firewire disk by me) in my FCP project.

Guess what, im getting the “invalid directory structure”. So im wondering why cuz all others P2 shots that i imported before worked really well.

First i changed the name of the folder containing the folders “audio, video proxy..etc” but it did not worked better.

So i decided to check in previous project on the disk where the P2 shots were imported and i found the problem.

I made a mistake importing the last P2 shots. I imported directly the folders ” audio, video, proxy…” in a previously custom named folder. Thats why it didnt worked. The folders ” audio, video, proxy…” must be in a folder called CONTENTS.

So i created a new folder named CONTENTS, drag and drop the folders “audio,video,proxy…” the re-imported choosing that CONTENTS folder and it worked perfectly like the previous shots i imported.

So just check if your media exhange format files are contained in a folder named CONTENTS if not that might be the problem.

Frank at productionsF3