Craig Alan
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the clips themselves are iffy but the original files copied from the P2 cards in one folder have never failed me. The camera gives an error message but then rewraps them in the playback mode.
Mac Pro, macbook pro, Imacs (i7); Canon 5D Mark III/70D, Panasonic AG-HPX170/AG-HPX250P, Canon HV40, Sony Z7U/VX2000/PD170; FCP 6 certified; FCP X write professionally for a variety of media; teach video production in L.A.
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then select content created or any other option.
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Thanks. I’m sure it was end user error. next time I need to relink I’ll keep that in mind.
Mac Pro, macbook pro, Imacs (i7); Canon 5D Mark III/70D, Panasonic AG-HPX170/AG-HPX250P, Canon HV40, Sony Z7U/VX2000/PD170; FCP 6 certified; FCP X write professionally for a variety of media; teach video production in L.A.
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Not sure I’m buying this, Bill. A databased application can find any file on any drive if it knows the path where it was stored. If it gets moved you need to point it to the new path. And a disc image is a virtual drive. It is not just a folder on the root level of a drive. The problem with disc images other than the time spent having to create them is they are just like any drive – they can become corrupted and unreadable. So if you have a disc image on a drive you have doubled your chances of having your media become unreadable. I’ve had it happen to me twice. The drive it was on was fine but the disc image lost some of of its structure and was unmountable. Now I was using the sparse bundles as a way of protecting students’ work in a class where hundreds of students shared 3 computers on multiple projects. So the percentage was very low but it did happen. I believe it happened (but this is a guess) when the disc bundle was being mounted and either the system crashed or there was a brown out to the electrical flow to the raid. I spent a lot of time with tech support from companies like disc warrior to see if I could get the bundle to mount but nothing would do the trick.
However, FCP X version 1 was designed to only work with one library on the root level of any attached drive. So maybe there is something to your theory that the root level is somehow more accessible to its database than putting it in any location that makes sense to the end user. However, libraries too can become corrupted and the idea of storing and opening all your projects overtime you open FC made no sense and was a recipe for disaster. Sparse bundles came to the rescue as a work around. Many virtual drives on one media raid = many root levels.
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FWIW I have found that when FC can’t read a copy of a P2 card, that if I copy the copy back onto an empty P2 card and then let a P2 camera read the contents (clips) and then reimport the card back into FC. FC will be able to read it and import the clips. The camera will initially give you an error message but if you ignore this it will rewrap the P2 footage in a form it can play back.
Mac Pro, macbook pro, Imacs (i7); Canon 5D Mark III/70D, Panasonic AG-HPX170/AG-HPX250P, Canon HV40, Sony Z7U/VX2000/PD170; FCP 6 certified; FCP X write professionally for a variety of media; teach video production in L.A.
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I do not put the P2 folder on my system drive or desktop. I put it in a master folder on my media raid.
If FC could not read the P2 folder with the card files copied in to it then it was not copied successfully.
FC imports the copied files way faster than the original card because my card reader is usb 2. Panasonic has released a P2 card reader with USB 3. That would help tremendously. But my Macs don’t have usb 3.
This looks even better!
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Always did it that way but it kept relinking one clip at a time and I could not figure how to get it to do them all at once.
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color matching. that actually is worth a try. and if FC’s doesn’t work then for sure a color correction app should do it. I assume you might have to go back over each clip and adjust the levels a bit based on what the matching does to each image but it should in theory get it within a close enough ballpark.
Bret, since you are not a fan of FC’s color matching feature, what program would you recommend?
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I use P2 cards.
I create a folder in the finder named something like
“P2 MELISSA 7-27-15 HA”.
I drag the entire contents of the P2 card into this folder to copy it. FC has never had a problem reading it, importing it and keeping the name I gave the folder as if its the Camera name. It serves as a b.u. and I have needed it occasionally when the media that was imported got corrupted for whatever reason. Rare but has happened. My feeling about FC’s archives is that it is a wrapper of sorts. I could be wrong but I’d rather use the original files contained in the card. I do not choose keep in place. FC copies it again into the library or in my case a media folder outside the library. Libraries can become corrupted as well. I’d rather have two copies of the media that are then referenced by the library.Inside the folder mentioned above
I have even had a couple of times when FC could not read the P2 copy for whatever reason and I was able to copy the two files back on to a P2 card, put it in a P2 cam. play it. then reimport it into FC and viola all is good. When I first put it back in camera it does give an error message because it is not wrapped the way the camera wraps it. But once it in playback mode it sees the clips just fine and re-wraps the media as usual.
I also feel that a copy of the P2 is a safer bet in the long run if for some reason you want to import it into another NLE rather that hoping Apple’s archive will play well with other programs.
Mac Pro, macbook pro, Imacs (i7); Canon 5D Mark III/70D, Panasonic AG-HPX170/AG-HPX250P, Canon HV40, Sony Z7U/VX2000/PD170; FCP 6 certified; FCP X write professionally for a variety of media; teach video production in L.A.
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Sorry. I meant events. And yes just to locate media more easily. But the default smart collection All Video + gear breaks media up into both camera name (which in my case is what I labeled the card copy folder in the finder) and by date. What I have been doing is importing a card copy and telling FC to create an event that uses the finder’s folder name. Now it seems to be doing this automatically in the smart collection. .
Mac Pro, macbook pro, Imacs (i7); Canon 5D Mark III/70D, Panasonic AG-HPX170/AG-HPX250P, Canon HV40, Sony Z7U/VX2000/PD170; FCP 6 certified; FCP X write professionally for a variety of media; teach video production in L.A.
