[Josh Minor]

It’s always a good idea to have a back-up of your hard drive just in case – especially since your computer is acting strangely. But to answer your question, no, these actions should not cause you to lose anything. The “verify disk” will just check to make sure that your hard drive is operating as it should, and it will verify that your OS files are intact. The “verify disk permissions” will check to see if your disk permissions are correct. Applications depend on the correct assignment and interpretation of permissions in order to function properly. If there are any errors or issues that become apparent after running these verifications, then you will need to repair them. You can run the repairs within Disk Utility.

[Josh Minor]

You could first check to make sure your computer is recognizing the memory. If you haven’t done this already, just go to the apple logo in the left-hand corner of your screen, click on it, and go down to “About this mac.” Then click on “more info” and go down to click on “memory” on the left side. You should see your memory listed on the right – make sure the status for all 16Gb says “ok.”
Also, you should try going into disk utility and perform “verify disk” on your computer’s hard drive. After that, try “verify disk permissions.” It’s possible that an OS file is corrupt, or your permissions got altered, which could potentially cause this kind of problem.

[Josh Minor]

Yeah, that sounds about right with the ~4GB limit- that would make a lot of sense now considering the correlation between the duration of the clips and the number of additional .MXF files that are created in each folder. The missing footage is from a separate interview than the footage shown above, and I thought maybe somehow the missing footage got saved into the same file path thus causing these issues (something file structure related). Now I am starting to suspect that the missing footage is just missing from my hard drive altogether. At least I can eliminate this file issue from the troubleshooting process. Thanks for the insight.

-Josh

[Josh Minor]

Thanks for the response. Yes I did download and install the plug-in, and it seemed to work for all of the first .MXF files in each folder (like the one labeled DC094401.MXF), but like I said, there seem to be multiple clips in some of the folders (like the one highlighted in the image above: DC094402.MXF), and these additional clips do not appear in the log and transfer window. I am able bring the first files in each folder into FCP (thanks to your advice), but I am not seeing these second, and sometimes third and fourth .MXF files in the log and transfer window. Below is a screenshot of my log and transfer window with the above files being brought in. Notice how DC0944_01 is present, but DC0944_02 is not. I am not entirely sure if these additional .MXF files are actually individual clips as I am not familiar with this file structure, but I do know that some of my footage appears to missing in the log and transfer window, so I can only assume at this point that these additional files are the missing clips.