P2 import to Final Cut Pro?
 

I'm importing my clips into final cut pro and in the p2 import window on the left hand side a couple of my clips have a half filled in circle instead of the full filled blue circle. What's that all about? The clips look fine in the p2 import window and on camera but once I hit cue and put them into the timeline they are really choppy and are sped up a ridiculous amount.

All of the clips were shot in 24pn 24fps and out of all of the clips it there are about four that aren't working

Ive tried everyway I could think of to re-import the clips but no matter what I do it ends up with that half filled blue circle.

If anyone knows of a way to fix this problem please tell..

Thanks,

James

What version of FCP are you using?
What is the setting of your sequence?
But most of all what screen are you seeing a blue circle half or full in? I don't have either in my P2 import screen. Can you include a screen shot?

I do not have my edit computer eavailable right now to verify but I am pretty sure that if you set in and out points in the logging section of the P2import screen that the blue dot shows up half filled, indicating that there is more "footage" available.

Martin,

I am using the newest version of FCP. I've never had this problem berfore so this seems strange. The small blue circle would be on the top left hand next to the clips waiting to be imported. Before you import the circle is blank and after the import the circle becomes blue.

Phillip,

Nomally that would be correct, but I have not set any in and out points before the import. I just selected all of the clips in the upper left and hit 'add selection to queue' Almost all of the clips are fine, but only four have the half blue circle and play back choppy and sped up. The footage looks fine on the camera as well as the right hand window of the P2 import window, but once they are in FCP they play back sped up and choppy

James,

You might try these troubleshooting steps:

- Trash your FCP preferences, reboot and re-start FCP.
- In Apple Disk Utility use the "verify/repair disk permissions" function.
- Open a new project file and reimport to this fresh project.
- Make sure your sequence and timeline settings match your frame-rate and codec.
- The latest version of FCP is 5.1.2 - make sure that's what you have.
- If you have a copy of either P2 Log, P2 Genie or HD Log use those programs to convert the raw, MXF files into QT's and then import them into FCP and see if the same behavior exists.
- If you still have the clips on P2 cards, try reimporting them after you've done the above clean-up.

If the clips are fine in-camera and you don't have any "!" or other icons in the thumbnails in-camera then this is a FCP-software issue.

See if any of this helps and let us know either way.

Robert,

I just tried all of that and I made sure to delete the clips in the capture scratch as well so i could just reimport the clips from my camera. It still came in with the half circle

I think I may have to do what you've suggested and use one of those other capture or log methods and then go into FCP from there..I just dont have any right now