[Mike Mcsweeney]

Update on “8% no data error message”:
The 00:00:00:00 (top right of clip viewer) is on all the clips with the “no data” status. As this has only occurred on import sessions AFTER I have trimmed some clips on board the TM700, I can only assume that something required by “log and transfer” is being stripped from certain clips (I definitely trimmed more than 8% of clips in the batch).

This is what I did to import the “no data” clips.
Move all the imported clips into a bin in the FCE project.
Queue each “no data” clip via the preview window in “log and transfer”, putting a “mark in” point at 00:00:00:04. Anything less than this will result in the “no data” message.
Move the clip to the queue and it should import ok.
For whatever reason the name of the clip will change on import – not sure what the rational is on this. So, on import, rename the clip to its original identity.
The reason for moving all the original clips into a bin prior to dealing with the “no data” clips is that the unwanted name change will inevitably be the same as a clip already imported, and so the new import will replace it. So put the original clips (in my case over 550) in a bin to keep them safe. Once the new clips have been imported and their names corrected, they can take up their correct positions in the clip stream.

If it is of any consequence, the iMAC is 3.06GH Intel Core2Duo, 4GB ram, Snow Leopard 10.6.4, FCE 4.0.1. All clips were imported to the partioned hard disc in the iMAC.

The moral of all this is – don’t muck about with clips in the camera’s memory until they have been imported into FCE – especially when they are family holiday stock. Once imported, trim off all the rubbish on the in-camera originals so immediate large sreen HD playback via HDMI can keep domsetic bliss, allowing proper editing on FCE to be done at ease.

[Mike Mcsweeney]

Last night I imported a queue of 600 1920×1080/50i clips into FCE (Panasonic TM700, iMac, Snow Leopard and FCE – both latest versions) directly from TM700’s internal memory. 8% of the queued clips had the error “no data” . All clips played in the preview window.
This is the third set of clips imported from this camera – the previous two gave no problem. I tried to import a selection of the “no data” clips into a new FCE project after re-booting with the same result.
I get the impression from the previous posts in this thread that people were either completely successful or unsuccessful in importing clips.
The only oddity I noted in the preview window: top right “time” showed 01 as a suffix on clips from the queue which imported ok. on “no data” clips the suffix was 00.
The only difference between this and the previous imports was that prior to this import, I trimmed a considerable number of clips on board the Panasonic, but as the trims were not limited to the “no data” clips, I cannot see that this contributed.