Wow, this thread is still alive… 🙂
Until I found this thread, I was having to transcode all files from my CF card!
What Declan Smith wrote was what worked for me (thanks Declan by the way!!!). I’m working of an iMac thats around 6 years old. Its factory OS was Leopard (10.5) but I upgraded my OS system up to Snow Leopard (10.6) several years back. I’m running an academic version of FCP 6.0.6 and I recently downloaded the plugin for the 5D Mark II and had troubles at first because I was choosing the wrong “DIRECTORY STRUCTURE”. I clicked folders at random and was finally able to get FCP to read the card, not the files stored on my CPU’s HD; the file structure was: My card name – DCIM – 100EOS5D
Now, I can store the files on my CPU’s HD and transcode perfectly :). So if you are getting the message:
“contains unsupported media or has an invalid directory structure. Please choose a folder whose directory structure matches supported media.”
then you might be, as Andy Rydzewski experimented for us, running on an old OS system or for my case choosing the wrong “path” for FCP to search for. So, if the problem is the same as mine, refer to Declan’s post that has the picture showing the folder hierarchy. The reason I couldn’t get the log and transfer to work off my CPU’s HD was because I had the folder hierarchy backwards which WAS:
DCIM – 100EOS5D – Folder containing files. NOW the file structure is: Folder containing files – DCIM – 100EOS5D.
Anyway, I hope this helps if anyone is still having issues.
Chris