external disk won't play P2 shots in import window at DVinfo.net

Leonard Levy · October 21st, 2007, 10:43 PM

I shot some footage last week that is behaving a litttle weirdly on my Mac. It was shot HVX200 on 2 @16 G P2 cards: 720/24PN. One card was 14G the other 9G each having many shots on them. Typical day's shooting.

I downloaded the footage onto an external drive via FW400 to a 7200 RPM OWC drive I have used many times before. I opened FCP 5.1.2 on my laptop to check the footage in the P2 import window.

I saw the footage but none of the files would play.

I checked that my FCP sequence and capture settings were also 720 24P.

I then put the original P2 cards in the laptop and FCP would play those fine. Only the files that had been copied to the external drive would not play. I tried importing one shot from the external disk and it seemed to import fine.

What's going on here? Why won't the files on the external disk play?

I don't recall ever having this problem before.

Lenny Levy

Barry Green · October 22nd, 2007, 01:59 AM

Solved on another forum, but for the benefit of DVInfo users who run into this, the problem was in renaming the contents folder and using the '#' sign in the new name (i.e., naming it "Contents #1"). The Mac won't import those files if the name has been changed to include any character other than alphanumerics.

October 21st, 2007, 10:43 PM	#1
Leonard Levy Trustee Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: USA Posts: 1,684	external disk won't play P2 shots in import window I shot some footage last week that is behaving a litttle weirdly on my Mac. It was shot HVX200 on 2 @16 G P2 cards: 720/24PN. One card was 14G the other 9G each having many shots on them. Typical day's shooting. I downloaded the footage onto an external drive via FW400 to a 7200 RPM OWC drive I have used many times before. I opened FCP 5.1.2 on my laptop to check the footage in the P2 import window. I saw the footage but none of the files would play. I checked that my FCP sequence and capture settings were also 720 24P. I then put the original P2 cards in the laptop and FCP would play those fine. Only the files that had been copied to the external drive would not play. I tried importing one shot from the external disk and it seemed to import fine. What's going on here? Why won't the files on the external disk play? I don't recall ever having this problem before. Lenny Levy

October 22nd, 2007, 01:59 AM	#2
Barry Green Barry Wan Kenobi Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: North Carolina Posts: 3,863	Solved on another forum, but for the benefit of DVInfo users who run into this, the problem was in renaming the contents folder and using the '#' sign in the new name (i.e., naming it "Contents #1"). The Mac won't import those files if the name has been changed to include any character other than alphanumerics.