FCP Import - Each Clip Comes In Twice
 

Is anyone having the issue where each EX1 clip appears twice in the bin when importing to FCP via XDCAM Transfer in the import menu?

After that, the behavior is strange sometimes, where dragging even one of the clips into the timeline will actually bring it in twice.

This is happening on two of my Macs, and didn't always happen - the first few imports were seamless.

Solution?

I had a similar thing happen with a duplicate clip on import. Both clips were highlighted with sort of a gray low-light. Once I highlighted the correct clip, it stopped that behavior.

vince

I'm also getting links to the same clip multiple times when using the XDCAM Transfer tool 2.1. I believe others have reported this too. It seems to be a bug.

Workarounds may be:

Delete clips from FCP Browser and reimport from folder.

Use XDCAM Transfer tool from desktop (it's a separate app) and create folder with mov clips first. Then open FCP and import. I think this is the best way to do it for various reasons.

I have experienced this problem as well. Whenever there are more than about 20 clips, the ones above 20 come in in double and FCP wigs out over them. When I delete the clips and re-import them it resolves the issue.

There really doesn't seem to be any consistency with this obvious transfer tool bug because very first time I transfered EX media it was only 8 or 10 clips. Most of them came in doubled up. I hope the next Sony Transfer Tool update resolves this issue.

- Don

I have the same problem and I also have another! Anyone ever seen this before? I feel like my graphics card on my MBP is all wonky perhaps?

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/2491/picture1xg2.jpg

Your posted picture says it all. You've got Mail, Safari, Quicktime, iChat, Preview and FCP all running at the same time........on a Macbook Pro that has limited RAM. Try turning everything off except FCP and you'll probably resolve your issue.

- Don

Yes, I get that when I first open a clip.

But it goes away when I press play.

This is on my Dual G5. Doesn't seem to happen on my MBP.

Just ordered a new 8-core. I'll tell you if it happens on that (in 3-5 weeks).

That's all there is to it? Who knew! Thanks, Don!

Doesn't resolve it on my box.

Did that solve it for you, Adam?

This is what I did. Just transfer the clips, delete them from your project, and re-import the new mov files.

This is a tiny inconvenience which will hopefully be resolved, but given how fast FCP stepped up to handle the EX1 workflow, I really can't complain. Anyone remember the early days of HDV?

With respect Don, I've generally kept Safari, Mail, and a couple other things open while editing for years, and never had any problems. Although I do agree with your troubleshooting method, which is to look at what else is running.

This looks like a either a gfx card hardware malfunction. or an OpenGL bug. Usually things like this happen to me if I opened a program that uses OpenGL heavily, but is not an Apple product...like a game in windowed mode, etc.

Granted, if you have tons of RAM and VRAM used in a relatively fast computer you can probably get away with running a few less "processor or graphic intensive" apps while editing. But it's general rule of thumb that a computer used for editing should only be used for editing and nothing else. Sure, lots of folks use their machines for absolutely everything and MOST of the time we get away with it, but that's not what the experts will tell you to do. "Why am I dropping frames during capture? All I was doing was sending out an email."

A past president of General Motors was quoted as saying: "Parts left out cost nothing and cause very few service problems." Good advice in any era.

When I first saw Adam's picture and noticed all those apps running on a Macbook Pro I'm thinking there's probably only 2 gigs of RAM installed and that HAS to be impacting the way FCP operates. If you look closely at the canvas window you can see that the graphics card is stretched to the limit. I always take the easy way out and point to the most obvious things to try first.

- Don