[Larry Brill]

Update:
I did a couple of tests this morning. Brain-cramp, I shot previous video in .mov files not AVCHD as posted.
I shot six text clips: 4K, UHD 59.94, UHD 29.97, FHD 59.94, FHD 29.97, and FHD 29.97 at 120 fps for slo-mo.
UHD 59.94, and FHD 59.94 did not import from the SD card, but all the others did. I’m sure I’ve shot at 60 i before and not seen this problem, but at least we’re narrowing down the suspects.

Lar

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[Larry Brill]

Thanks Joe.
Yes, AVCHD (.mov) No, the hard drive has 4 TB available (external drive) Possible, SD card is failing.
Since you use the DVX200 –maybe you can answer, and maybe this is part of the problem, but I was shooting a number of different shots in a school classroom. Most captured fine (start/stop) but a few times I hit the record button, it started to record and then stopped. I got a warning message: “recording stopped” with a little hour glass animation. It did that for a few seconds before returning to normal.
???
I’ve been playing around with FCP more and noticed that with the clips that fail to show up properly in the clip viewer, when I try to import them directly from the SD card, in the import box, the clip has a strip of white across the bottom in the thumbnail. If I take the clips, copy them to another drive (preferably the one that the library, events and project are one) I can import them and that little white strip is gone. And that seems to work.

I can open those video clips directly from the SD card in both Quicktime and Photos on the iMac.
So the problem seems to be getting them directly from the SD card into FCPx. Oh, and if I right-click the package contents of the library, the imported video that doesn’t show thumbnails, is there and will play fine when you expand and play by hitting the space bar.

Sorry for the long analysis. ???

Lar

[Larry Brill]

Thanks Tim:
I went back and looked at the list again and realized all the corrupted video was shot with a Sony HD EX1 / EX3. It was the Sony codec causing issues, though I still don’t know how it happened or why the saved raw files wouldn’t just open in QTime player as before. They were imported with XD Transfer through FCP and created as MOV files.
At least knowing that, I can use a video conversion software to re-save them, but we’re talking about a thousand individual clips.

Lar

Lar