32GB card weirdness

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Peter Richardson

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Hi guys,

A couple strange nuances I've noticed with the 32GB cards.

1) When I view the cards in FCP directly from the card through my 5-slot P2 card reader, it shows the correct number of clips (ie what I see in playback on the camera) However, when I copy this card to my HDD, there are more clips in the FCP import viewer, and it seems some of the clips arbitrarily last 12:22:00. There are no clips spanned across cards, all clips are contained on a single card.

2) Also, I will sometimes get a "Spanned" comment in the FCP window, even when I know the clip is not spanned -- it is continuous on a single card.

Thoughts? Is this just FCP weirdness? Anyone have these problems with alternative programs (like Raylight)? Thanks!

Peter
 
It's not weirdness, it's actually a spanned clip. It's just not spanned across cards, it's spanned on the same card. The issue comes about because the file system used by the P2 cards is FAT32, and FAT32 has a maximum 4GB file size limit. So any clips that last longer than 4GB have to be split into multiple clips and "spanned" together.
 
I don't use FCP so I don't know; someone who knows FCP will have to answer. But if you're storing the clips on a FAT32 drive, it'd have no choice but to divide them up into <4GB sections.
 
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