Mattias Rylander
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My mistake, the FAT32 limit is actually 4GB so it is weird that you have files limited to 2.1GB.
An MTS file joiner is usually available from the camera manufacturer. It is actually quite easy to join the files binary (a program called MTSMerger for Mac does this) however you do loose some metadata. -
Ah it is the FAT32 filesystem used on SDHC cards which limits the filesize to 2GB.
/matt
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Well how many clips are there really on media?
It sounds like a case where FCP and iMovie cannot import two clips due to unsupported format such as 1080p60 or similar.
You might want to try using a separate transcoding software which doesn’t have these limitations such as Toast for instance.
HTH
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Yeah the camera shoots in either 50i or as the special option of 50p.
ClipWrap works well and rewraps the h.264 video in a Quicktime container. There is a ffmpeg script/app (Rewrap2M4V) floating around which does the same trick. ClipWrap however is a commercial product and therefore more capable. For instance, it can transcode directly into ProRes if you wish, which is an extra step in the Rewrap2M4V flow. If you go for the free workflow, you need to transcode into a workable format for FCP. Some use Toast, StreamClip etc. to accomplish that. Others use the VoltaicHD app, but I’m unsure if it can handle the 50p/60p versions, but I would bet it can.
HTH
/matt