[Travis]

I renamed and nothing happen. Same problem.

[Travis]

Thanks Jeremy for your help. I haven’t put the files back to the card yet. I don’t own the camera or would have sooner. So that’s still an option I need to try. The file structure is simple: Card 1 then the Contents folder and locked file next to it, then everything else is in the contents folder.

[Travis]

Thanks for the response…The 8 gig cards are broken into 2, 4 gig pieces. So when you’re recording and it goes over 4 gigs, then it creates a new clip, thus a spanned clip. I know the data is there. When I ‘get info’ on the XMF folder it tells me how much is in the file. I was able to get another spanned file that was doing the same thing that was spread over 2 cards, so I only put one in at a time and got it in that way. But I haven’t been able to get 4 remaining clips into FCP. I’m not sure why and the FCP directions for spanned clips is a bit confusing. Any other thoughts? It’s a total of about 40 minutes of 3 hours that i shot for a documentary…feel the pain… 🙂

[Travis]

Jeremy,

Thanks for letting me know there’s someone else out there as well. If you scroll down a ways in this forum, you’ll notice another thread I posted with the problems I was having. If you have time and don’t mind, let me know what you think when you read those threads. Thanks!

[Travis]

Thanks for your willingness to help me solve this problem. I have FCP 5.1.2 on the system. I’ve been able to import the incomplete files that cover two cards. I was evan able to import a spanned file that went over two cards. I had to do each card seperately for it to work though. Together the two cards wouldn’t work. I still can’t get them in. I have one spanned file on one card, which is now on a hard drive. (all of these clips are on a hard drive) This card I’ve been able to ingest clips before the spanned file into FCP as quicktimes and after the spanned file as quicktimes on the same card. So I’m a little confused as to why I can’t get the spanned file, in the middle of the card to import. I know the names of the two files that it’s split into, just not sure how to get it into the system from there. Here’s what happens when I drop the file into the import window on the P2 import window. The clip begins to act like it’s going in, then it says: 1 clip queued-idle and the status symbol when going into the window is a stop sign shape with an exclamation point in the middle of it and when I drag my mouse over it it says ‘error no data’. I’ve checked the folder that it lives in currently and there is 7 gigs or so. It also did this on the similar spanned clip that was on two cards, yet when I put them in one at a time it worked. Am I not doing some basic step? or what? Hope someone can help a begging editor! Thanks for attempting to help so far.

[Travis]

I’ve tried that but it won’t import them. It comes up as an unkown file. Even trying to follow the FCP directions by renaming the reel and such isn’t working. I can’t get them imported together or seperately. Has anyone actually dealt with the spanned clips and if so how? I shot a documentary and so anything over 4GB turns into a spanned clip. Any other wisdom?