P2 import error

[gaston]

Originally Posted by gaston
I'm hoping someone can give me a hand with this. I shot a bunch of footage with my HVX200 on a firestore, organized p2 and copied the contents and lastclip files to an external harddrive. Now I'm trying to import the footage using a Macbook Pro 2.16 Intel Core 2 Duo with 1GB RAM. When I go to import P2, all the thumbnails and files show up but I'm having some issues. First, I can't preview any of the clips. Second, the clips that are spanned will not import. When I add them to the cue, I get the red exclamation point which says "Error:Unknown". All the non-spanned clips import just fine. I'm really hoping someone can help me with this because I'm dying to edit some of this footage.

Please feel free to throw out any suggestions. I don't have very much experience with this equipment but really need to get going.

Here's what I'm working on:
Mac OS X 10.4.9
Final Cut 5.1.4

 

[nsoltz]

That sounds like the MacOS P2 bug. Many people have used P2 Log to work around this problem. Others have imported on the Windows side of life. One thing you can do is make certain that the Remove Duplicate Frames box is checked off (it is on by default). This has solved the problem for a number of users.

Ned Soltz

 

[gaston]

Well, I answered my own question through endless trial and error. It seems that the problems was that I had the raw footage on one external hard drive and wanted to import into another. All I had to do was copy the raw footage into the hard drive that I want to import into and then the import would work fine. I have no clue as to why that would make any difference. I'm assuming it's because there are a bunch of issues with FCS still. I hope this helps someone else out there.