[Louis Sparre]

I’m having the same FCP issue with the E series P2 cards. FCP simply will not recognize them yet the log and xfer process works fine from my laptop.

I’ve updated the software on my mac from the panasonic site but it hasn’t helped. Anyone have any thoughts?

(mac pro quad, hvx200, e series 16gb p2)

[Louis Sparre]

hey shane,

any idea how to fix it? i’m getting desperate

[Louis Sparre]

Hey Climbon321,

thanks for your help. I tried holding the shift key as well as selecting the option within FCP preferences that tells the program to open with an empty project. I’m still getting that same error message though “blahblah.mxf is missing, without this file the movie won’t play properly.”

now I’m really starting to run out of ideas. If anything else occurs to you, let me know… thanks.

-L

[Louis Sparre]

yeah, that’s what i was thinking about doing. what a pain. does anyone know of any setting in FCP where I can force final cut to open on an empty project instead of “last one used” or something like that? I feel like that might help.

Lou

[Louis Sparre]

Hi Shane,

Thanks for getting back to me so quickly. I am in fact using a program called Raylight which makes the mxf files “usable” in final cut. It is the mxf’s which fcp calls missing though, not the movie.mxf.mov (which is what raylight converts the files into). Any ideas for a solution? Thanks again.

Lou

[Louis Sparre]

Just found it. Thanks so much.

[Louis Sparre]

Thanks Bob. I imagine we could get away with delivering a 1080i
program, will have to confirm with our client. We will definitely be
originating on 1080p24 for aesthetic purposes. Can we load this
footage using the DVCPROHD codec through the Kona card? Can we then
out put to HDCAM 1080i through the card without having to go through
a UCON or Terenex upconverter?

[Louis Sparre]

thanks guys. this is a TV program. our final deliverable is 1080p24
HDCAM. We are not mixing other content, graphics etc. with the
program. If we offline in SD or DV25, what steps will we need to
take to online in 1080p24- is there a guide somewhere to that
workflow in FCP? Can we just consolidate our final sequence in the
Media Manager and reload at 1080p24? Will FCP be able to convert the
TC from 29.97 to 23.98? We have a 7TB Xserve RAID and the fastest
Mac Pro, so I don’t think speed or space will be an issue, right?

Bob- is it necessary to get the K3 box in order to view downconverted
HD on a “cheepo TV set”? it looks like it just has all the same
outputs as the cables that already come with the card.

thanks again for all of your help.

[Louis Sparre]

thanks guys. this is a TV program. our final deliverable is 1080p24
HDCAM. We are not mixing other content, graphics etc. with the
program. If we offline in SD or DV25, what steps will we need to
take to online in 1080p24- is there a guide somewhere to that
workflow in FCP? Can we just consolidate our final sequence in the
Media Manager and reload at 1080p24? Will FCP be able to convert the
TC from 29.97 to 23.98? We have a 7TB Xserve RAID and the fastest
Mac Pro, so I don’t think speed or space will be an issue, right?

Bob- is it necessary to get the K3 box in order to view downconverted
HD on a “cheepo TV set”? it looks like it just has all the same
outputs as the cables that already come with the card.

thanks again for all your help.

[Louis Sparre]

Does anyone have experience using the Sony JH-3 deck? It seems that
it can add pulldown and downconvert 1080p23.98 to DV25 (29.97) for us
on our load-in (over firewire 400), bypassing our need for any Kona 3
card or Black Magic card at all.