[Benjamin Reichman]

Can anyone help here? If you need to ask me more questions, or I’m going about this the wrong way, please just ask/tell away!

[Benjamin Reichman]

There’s a laptop at work exhibiting exactly same issue, but Perian wasn’t installed. Any other suggestions?

Jason, what was your solution? Did removing Perian fix it, or if not, what did you do?

I really don’t know where to go from here in terms of troubleshooting…

Thanks in advance!

[Benjamin Reichman]

“The quick search is very slow…” Ironic.

[Benjamin Reichman]

Thank you, David. That is VERY helpful!

[Benjamin Reichman]

Rafael, thanks! I know how you feel: the more I read about this, the less I understand, too…

[Benjamin Reichman]

Thanks both for the info. Now I just need to find some downloadable LUTs on Panasonic’s website…so far no dice, but I’ll keep looking. Does anyone know where they might be found? So far, all I’ve found are scene files, which are just files for use in-camera, right?

[Benjamin Reichman]

Well, I switched over to transcoding all the clips in each reel to ProRes 422 and relinking that way. However, I hadn’t cleared out all the batch captured clips with handles, so those were relinked as well…
…and somehow I now have a sequence that mostly works but is sometimes slightly off. A clip might be offset a few frames, another clip might run 15 or more frames longer than it should…

In other words, worse than useless. I suppose I have to start all over again? And re-transcode entire clips–for every reel. And then reconnect that way?

I feel like I’m digging myself in deeper at each point, and the pressure’s on…

[Benjamin Reichman]

One more note: Some volumes (reels) work fine and some do not, and it’s not apparent to me why there’s a difference. They can even be in the same folder! (I have a folder for each shooting day, like “TKB_111121” in which there’s a folder for each reel, “TKB_111121_A01,” “TKB_111121_A02” and so on).

When Final Cut recognizes that the volume I’ve mounted in L&T is the correct one, it happily batch captures and all is well. When it doesn’t, having it “search for missing media” causes it to crash every time. It just goes poof.

[Benjamin Reichman]

Now that I’ve switched to a different Mac, I’m getting consistent-if problematic results.

Some clips batch capture without a problem. However, this is a common crash I’m getting:

1) I load TKB_111121_A01 into Log & Transfer.

2) I select 10 clips from the reel TKB_111121_A01 in the Browser.

3) I right-click and choose Batch Capture.

4) FCP gives me an error dialog box in the L&T window: “The volumes listed below are missing. Please mount them to continue re-importing media.” The volume listed is the exact same one I already have mounted in L&T.

5) If I choose “Add Volumes…” and re-pick the volume, the dialog box persists. It didn’t recognize the volume in the first place and re-adding it doesn’t help now (unsurprisingly).

6) If I choose “Search for volumes” the dialog box automatically picks the right folder on the drive! But when I click “Open,” a progress bar in L&T runs for a few seconds with the message “Searching for media” and then FCP crashes. Every time.

I can post the crash report if that would be helpful.

[Benjamin Reichman]

That’s when it either crashed outright or said there was nothing to process.