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P2 Spanned files in FCP
I haven’t gotten anywhere with a problem I’ve been working on for over a week now. Is there a number or any contact info to a final cut representative of some sort. I’m getting desperate to get some sort of an answer. Everyone I talk to says it isn’t that big of a deal, but so far nothing has got the job done.
Any other wisdom? Thanks for any help offered.
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SOrry for your troubles, but you have not listed anything that’s wrong.
Jeremy
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[Travis] “. Is there a number or any contact info to a final cut representative of some sort”
Travis
between the P2 and FCP forum here on the Cow you are going to get better real world answers than you would from any apple person the week before Macworld.gary adcock
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Jeremy,
Thanks for letting me know there’s someone else out there as well. If you scroll down a ways in this forum, you’ll notice another thread I posted with the problems I was having. If you have time and don’t mind, let me know what you think when you read those threads. Thanks!
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I read the other post and the only thing I can think of is that you said the folder is 7 Gigs or so, but how big are the files that are giving you trouble? If FCP is giving you a no data error, I am wondering if there’s any video in that file at all…
Jeremy
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Thanks for the response…The 8 gig cards are broken into 2, 4 gig pieces. So when you’re recording and it goes over 4 gigs, then it creates a new clip, thus a spanned clip. I know the data is there. When I ‘get info’ on the XMF folder it tells me how much is in the file. I was able to get another spanned file that was doing the same thing that was spread over 2 cards, so I only put one in at a time and got it in that way. But I haven’t been able to get 4 remaining clips into FCP. I’m not sure why and the FCP directions for spanned clips is a bit confusing. Any other thoughts? It’s a total of about 40 minutes of 3 hours that i shot for a documentary…feel the pain… 🙂
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For what it’s worth, I’m pretty sure the files are split up into 2GB files internally on the P2 cards. Have you copied the clips back to card and used a camera to try and repair the clips?
Tell me the directory structure that you keep your files in as well.
Jeremy
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Also, have you tried the P2 forum here on the Cow?
Jeremy
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Thanks Jeremy for your help. I haven’t put the files back to the card yet. I don’t own the camera or would have sooner. So that’s still an option I need to try. The file structure is simple: Card 1 then the Contents folder and locked file next to it, then everything else is in the contents folder.
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Try renaming the Card 1 folder.
Jeremy
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I renamed and nothing happen. Same problem.
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