P2 media import problems PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!
by Fine Productions
on
Jun 27, 2006 at 8:08:59 pm
I recently took an HVX200 to a trip to Africa. I used three 8 gig cards. After each card filled I transferred the material from the card to a 1T G-Raid Drive. I never changed the name of any contents on the P2. The only thing I did was make folders on the G-raid named after each card and transferred the card material into these folders. I have been back form Africa for a week and am having a terrible time importing the footage. Some of the footage will import, but some of it will not and gives me an error message. I have even had footage import fine
Re: P2 media import problems PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!! by Jan Crittenden Livingston on Jun 27, 2006 at 8:59:25 pm
Okay, so first let me say that the only software upgrade on the 8GB card allowed the older machines to recognize it as an 8GB card. Since you are using an HVX, this is not necessary. Would love to know who you talked to in Panasonic, so that we can help squash that unhelpful hint.
On to your footage.
So your footage is oganized in Folders and organized like the following:
Folder Name
Contents
subfolders
Lastclip.txt
True? not true? if not true, how do they look?
Which version of FCP are you working in? OS? How much horsepower on your computer? Are you working through the USB or Firewire import? What else is running on the MAC that you are working with? What else is open?
Let us know.
Thanks,
jan
Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, DVCPRO, DVCPRO50, AG-DVX100
Panasonic Broadcast & TV Systems
Re: P2 media import problems PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!! by Shane Ross on Jun 27, 2006 at 10:09:12 pm
Look in your CONTENTS folder. Compare the contents of the VIDEO and CLIPS folders. Do they have all the same footage and names? If you have a clip, but no video, that means that the shot that CLIP represents was deleted...most likely in camera (My DPs did this a lot, much to my chagrin. I had a lot of verifying to do).
Re: P2 media import problems PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!! by Fine Productions on Jun 28, 2006 at 2:25:37 pm
Hi Shane I just checked a couple of folders for missing clip/video names not matching. I also just tried to create a new project and import the clips into there and once again I get the message "One or more p2 clips failed to import; probable incomplete or corrupt clips". Any other ideas woudl really help. I am really gettign nervous.
Re: P2 media import problems PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!! by Fine Productions on Jun 27, 2006 at 9:21:55 pm
Hi Jan,
Thanks for the quick reply. I am running a G5 dual GHz machine, 6 gigs of ram, FCP 5.0.4. I also have a Kona LH card. My hard drive array is one 500G SATA. The rest of my drives are G-Raid 1 TB Fire wire 800 drives. Most of my footage is shot on a Varicam. I import the varicam footage SDI through the Kona LH. I have also run all my updates for the MAC. I have no other programs running when I have been trying to import from P2.
My G-Raid that I transferred my P2 footage too is organized as you said.
Folder Name
Contents
-sub folders from P2
Lastclip.txt
The footage is being imported from the G-Raid over Fire wire 800.
FYI- the person who told me to update the firmware of the 8 gig cards was reached by calling 1-800-524-1448 x2. I was told he was very familiar with the HVX-200.
I would appreciate any help you could give me with this. As you can imagine I am very worried. Is there someone I can contact directly for help?
Re: P2 media import problems PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!! by Jan Crittenden Livingston on Jun 28, 2006 at 3:09:06 pm
Hi,
You can contact me off list at crittendenj at us.panaosnic.com. I think what I want to see is a DVD of this CONTENTS folder, if possible. Perhaps you could wean the files that do import out of the folders, leaving the ones that do not, and then copy it to a DVD?
See you in the inbox.
Best,
jan
Jan Crittenden Livingston
Product Manager, DVCPRO, DVCPRO50, AG-DVX100
Panasonic Broadcast & TV Systems
Re: P2 media import problems PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!! by Kenn Christenson on Jun 28, 2006 at 3:13:34 pm
Going through firewire has been problematic for me with the P2s I kept getting the same kind of error message you're getting when I was trying to capture from the camera into FCP.
After trying everything I could think of, I finally switched firewire cables and voila, the clips imported without a problem. Have you tried changing out the firewire cable between your Mac and the G-Raid or maybe trying firewire 400 (if the G-Raid has the connection.)
Re: P2 media import problems PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!! by Mike Schrengohst on Jun 30, 2006 at 5:57:38 am
If you have a PC try Raymaker from dvfilm.com
you can import just the .mxf files.
I have to do this with files that get sent
to me with missing folders and such.
