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P2 MICON ERROR
So I’m doing a two-week shot of plants growing, using the interval option. When the first card (I’m using 2 4-gig cards) gets full, on the screen in blazing red is the message:
SYSTEM ERROR
P2 MICON ERRORInteresting. Disturbing, but interesting.
So I shut the camera off and then continue the shot, figuring that I’ll just cut the two together or maybe use a little disolve to make it work. I pop the P2 card into my handy PowerBook G4, open FCP and press the Import P2 button. FCP freezes, hangs, is incountering a serious melt-down, has been disrupted by a blast of focused gamma rays from X quadrant…
The finder tells me the card is full, but FCP doesn’t like whatever is there. When the plant shot is done, I’ll put the card back in the camera and see if I can repair it, but I suspect I’m screwed.
Anyone ever come across this problem before or have any works of wisdom to share?
Thanks in advance.
Ken
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I encountered this same error last week for the first time. Both 8GB cards were empty. The screen would go black and that error would come up. I’d cycle the power to get the camera back on and after a minute or so later, same issue. The camera would record to the cards just fine… just this annoying error and shut down occurring in between shots. I tried using each of the three different cards one at a time, and still got the error. Eventually, by mid-day it stopped.
All the clips were fine for playback in the camera and they transferred to the P2 Store with no errors. When I tried importing them into FCP, they all came in but one (the first clip shot). When I put the card back in the camera, the very first clip was white with the red X. I repaired it in the camera, verified playback, and then it imported into FCP properly.
Strange occurrence. I was shooting 720p24N… nothing complicated. Since the first clip shot required repair, I’m wondering if the formatted (and blank) cards were somehow the issue?
Mitch Ives
Insight Productions Corp.
mitch@insightproductions.comApple Certified Trainer: Final Cut Pro 5
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