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John Evans
November 12, 2009 at 5:04 pm in reply to: P2 Card Import Problems: is there hope for this?

Could you walk me through the process in Windows to repair the MXF files?

In a word, nope. I don’t know the first thing about Windows. Someone else did it and gave the files to me, I have no idea what they did or how they did it.

I suggest just finding someone who is familiar enough with Windows OS and asking them to help you with repairing files or restoring or whatever. I think he might have said he used the MSDOS shell to do this but I have no idea for sure. Sorry, but from here I can be of no help.
John Evans
November 12, 2009 at 3:00 pm in reply to: P2 Card Import Problems: is there hope for this?

I ended up making a list of the problem files with the error and using Windows to repair those specific XMF files. This allowed me to transfer the files onto a drive and import them. There were some gray blocks for a few frames or strange video lines but I was able to edit around them. Hope this helps
John Evans
August 18, 2009 at 5:40 pm in reply to: P2 Card Import Problems: is there hope for this?

“Why don’t you plug in an Extended HDD to your MBP, set your capture scratch to that HDD, and away you go. No reason to go through a PC.”

Maybe I’m not following.

I cannot get the clips off of this USBdrive using any method. They do not transfer using OSX finder (Error -36). they do not import using the FCP P2 import tool (Red exclamation point). And they cannot be ingested using P2CMS (“It rolled back”).

I tried importing them from the USB2 drive using FCP with the scratch disk set to the Extended HDD. That was when I got the red Excalmation point stop sign thing in FCP P2 Import.
John Evans
August 18, 2009 at 5:08 pm in reply to: P2 Card Import Problems: is there hope for this?

Not spanned clips. In fact the spanned clips work fine too.

I should clarify/reiterate, these files won’t transfer off the USB2 harddrive onto my MBP desktop, nor will the clips import using FCP’s P2 Import function. But the problem only exists on clips written to ONE of the two cards that were used.

Today I’m going to try and transfer the files onto a Windows PC then on to a Mac Extended HDD and import them that way.
John Evans
August 18, 2009 at 3:35 pm in reply to: P2 Card Import Problems: is there hope for this?

Hi Jeremy. Thanks for the feedback. However, the files I’m having trouble with are all less than 4gig in size. In fact, they are all around 300-900meg.

The largest files transferred fine.