[Alex Joseph]

https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/1105008

This thread should give you you’re answer.

-Alex

[Alex Joseph]

Sure hope you copied each card in full to individual folders on the USB drive… 🙁

There is a lot of very necessary data and meta data scattered around those P2 cards required for proper import.

Also be sure that the P2 drivers installed are you machine.

Good Luck.

-Alex

[Alex Joseph]

Jeff’s probably right.

Could be that you have clips with the same name used multiple times. For example when media managing a project and I use clip “Super Cool Shot” I may use various segments of that clip throughout the cut – because it’s a super cool shot. FCP will add a numeric identifier at the end since it is creating multiple files and you can’t have multiple clips with the same name. “Super Cool Shot” becomes “Super Cool Shot XXX” and so on. (XXX representing numeric identifiers, not the content of my super cool shot.) 🙂

Also, you may want to check and see if your clip names are very long. FCP used to have a max character and may be truncating the name since you don’t appreciate the value of brevity. That could be part of the issue, not sure if that still applies on recent versions. Lastly, if you have any non standard characters in the clip names. Like “Frank’s Super Cool Shot” or “$h!TTy Shot?” FCP may be throwing a fit because of the unrecognized characters.

Any of that look familiar?

Good Luck.

-Alex

[Alex Joseph]

It looks like this is a problem with the long GOP. Setting Media Manager to recompress the footage to DVCPROHD and then Media Managing the resulting project to copy with no handles gave me the desired results. A few extra frames at the end of the new clip but I’m thinking that’s the result of a 23.98 clip in a 59.94 drop frame time line. Looks like another hiccup for long GOP editing and is a strike against a XDCAM work flow that has been quite smooth so far. I wonder where else this issue will raise it’s ugly head. Thanks for your suggestions and if my projects don’t reflect the results of my tests I’ll be back on with more info. In the meantime, if anyone else if facing a similar problem the recompression seems to do the trick.

Cheers,

Alex

Alex J.

[Alex Joseph]

I forgot to mention that the clips all have reel #’s that was my first guess as well.

As for the long GOP note you may be onto something there. Is the only solution to transcode all footage? I’m dealing with about 900 hours of xdcam footage. That’s not a typo. Can you point me to more info on this issue? I’ll run some tests and post back the results tomorrow.