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  • Yari Wolinsky

    December 12, 2007 at 1:24 am in reply to: Grey Screen on importing archived P2

    After I located a bad clip I tried loading in all reels that might’ve had some related media on them. For example, bad clip shows up on 1003b, so I loaded in 1002a, 1002b, 1003a, 1003b, 1004a, 1004b, and 1004c. No luck. I haven’t tried loading in -everything-. I might try that as well.

    I went through many of the P2 directories and couldn’t find any problems, though its possible I missed something.

    Could the lastclip.txt and the divided reels be having some sort of conflict?

  • Yari Wolinsky

    December 12, 2007 at 1:04 am in reply to: Grey Screen on importing archived P2

    Lots. But I also still have all the mxf files on an external hard drive. I checked those and couldn’t find any problems.

    I’ll explain my archiving workflow and maybe someone can spot a problem:

    The P2 reels vary in size from 1gig to 16gigs. I can backup to DVD any reel under 4gigs. Those that are over 4gigs, I duplicate a suitable number of times and then bring them back into FCP P2 import. There, I can rebuild the duplicates by removing clips until I get the size of each one down to ~4gigs. Make sense? Thus, for example, while reel 1006 might be put on one disk because its 3gigs, 1007 (15gigs) will become 1007a, 1007b, 1007c, and 1007d.

    I’ve never had any trouble importing files from these divided reels as long as they are on a hard drive (checked them when I started having the grey screen problem). Only once they are on a DVD do some clips seem to show up with only a grey screen. My guess is that there is some sort of problem created by dividing the reels up into subreels.

  • Yari Wolinsky

    December 11, 2007 at 1:33 pm in reply to: Grey Screen on importing archived P2

    Yes, all the files are in place. The P2 directory structure is correct and all the corresponding files are in there.

    I tried copying the reels off the DVDs and onto a hard drive. No luck.

    Since it occurs mostly with spanned clips, I tried copying the bad clip as well as the next reel (with the spanned media) onto a hard drive, but that’s when I saw it mix the grey screen and working video.

  • Yari Wolinsky

    November 30, 2006 at 2:08 am in reply to: FCP HD White Screen

    Answering my own question. Found this solution over at Apple’s site:

    “….The normal way to get an App to use Rosetta is by;
    Going to Applications
    Control-click the QuickTime application.
    In the context menu, choose Get Info
    Select “Open Using Rosetta”.”

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