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Stream Error in Log and Transfer
Hi board,
I’m encountering an error when I try to import some footage for an FCP project. I’m running FCP 7.0.3 on a new Mac Pro, OS 10.6.5.
Up front, I don’t know what kind of camera they shot this on. Will find out later this weekend.
The video type is .MXF, if that helps.
I open up log and transfer, and I can see the clips – their name, duration, etc all look correct. The thumbnail is even present. But the clips won’t play in the preview – it says preview unsupported for this format.
And when I drag a clip down to transfer, the status ball spins for a moment then stops and turns into a red stop-sign with an exclamation point. When I hover over it, it reads “Stream Error.”
Looking over the board, I’m not seeing a solution that works for me. I’ve tried changing where I save the new clips to the same drive as where the media is coming from. I’ve tried changing my preferences by clicking the box for “Remove Advanced Pulldown and Duplicate Frames.” I’ve tried turning off Perian. I’ve deactivated all my fxFactory plugins.
I’d appreciate any thoughts!
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4 Replies
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mxf is just a way to handle/wrap the codec, it can be DVCProHD or AVC-Intra to a number of other things, my guess it is one of the other things. FCP does not support everything that is out there, especially some of the consumer cameras. You need to find out what camera it is. You can download a program called ClipWrap to see if that helps, it is $50 but they have a trial so you know if it will work before you spend the $$.
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Thanks Michael,
but ClipWrap didn’t seem to like my footage. I point it to the folder, and it says “could not determine format.”
I believe that I’m dealing with P2 footage. There’s a folder called Contents, then a slew of other folders (Audio, Clip, Icon, Proxy, Video, Voice) then a text document called LASTCLIP.
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P2 should come into FCP just fine, do to the Panasonic website and get the AVC-Intra codec and install it (it is Intel only though). See if that gets you up and running.
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No lucky!
Went to the Panasonic site and downloaded the AVC-Intra decoder… no change.
And I’m actually not sure I did anything new – since I’m running FCP 7, I think I already had everything I downloaded from Panasonic.
How frustrating…
Thanks for your help! If you have any other thoughts, I’m all ears.
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