[Adrian Lopez]

Yeah.. for me it was user error. Final Cut was fine. Turns out that somehow I’d copied across the CONTENTS directory off my firestore drive, but forgotten the LASTCLIP.TXT file. I normally copy over both, but this particular time, I didnt. I spent the better part of two weeks pulling my hair out over this – cursing Apple every 15 minutes for not ‘properly testing Final Cut 6’, and in the end, I was the idiot.

Final Cut needs LASTCLIP.TXT to properly ingest P2 footage, hence the exclamation marks when its missing. Just make sure CONTENTS and LASTCLIP.TXT are in the same directory, and you should be good to go.

BTW. Remember on the Firestore, the CONTENTS and LASTCLIP.TXT folder and file dont show up till you do an ORGANIZE P2 task. And you cant record to the drive again after that. You have to do a format.

Good luck.

[Adrian Lopez]

Actually, we discovered the problem. It was a corrupted LASTCLIP.TXT file. When we compared the copy on the FCP system and the copy on the FIrestore, there was a byte difference. We recopied over the LASTCLIP.TXT file, and presto! P2 clips imported no problem! What a relief! Dont know how it got that way – hasnt happened again since. Hope things work out as easily for you.

Let us know if it works for you.

[Adrian Lopez]

P2 import wont work for us. Dragging a clip into the queue gives us a spinning arrow for a bit, then a red exclamation. We know the clips are solid, we imported them onto a canopus with no problem. We can scrub and see the clip in the preview window, just cant ingest to a bin.

Any idea what to do here?

[Adrian Lopez]

Glad to hear that worked for you. Didnt work here. Followed your procedure, reinstalled FCP 6, and same problem. DVCPRO HD clips wont ingest.

God, this is driving me crazy.

A.

[Adrian Lopez]

We’re having this exact problem. Good to know we’re not alone in our pain. This was working fine in FCP 5. Now all we get is orange exclamation marks, and we cant ingest. Major showstopper