Import crashing FCP5

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davdonn

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Hi,
I'm in the beginning of a shoot using both P2-4GB cards and 16GB cards. In the field I'm dumping the cards to a Firewire 800 external drive linked to my MacBook Pro.
Now, I'm trying to import the files from the Firewire 800 drive in my studio into my Final Cut 5.0.4 system. But, after importing part of the file (just one cut), it completely locks up and crashes my computer. I have to do a hard start just to regain control. Is this a problem with this version FCP, with the Mac, the cards or what?
I have four more days of shooting and am seriously considering renting camera with real tape going through it.
Please help with your suggestions quickly.
Thanks,
David
 
Try doing a import of the card via final cut pro , instad of copying the whole card to the hard drive. Other than that, I would fix permissions and maybe see how you copy the cards over to the hard drive. Do you drag the whole card onto the hard drive or create a new folder and then drag the contents of the P2? that might make a difference in how FCP reads the data.

-p
 
Simon Sommerfeld suggested copying the media files from the external drive where I had dumped the P2 cards to the internal drive of my FCP system. Darn, if that didn't work. I have no idea why the import works from the computer's internal drive but not from the FW 800 external drive. But, I need to get this resolved because it adds an extral copying step and a lot of wasted time. Any ideas?
DD
 
Copy to the internal.

I've seen issues when transferring from externals.

Don't know why and don't care; for me at least I try to eliminate issues and this seems to.
 
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