file error: illegal name

JUST two letters? Is there a "/" between them?

Illegal name with two letters?

I thought of AWOL but that's four letters.

Then there's DUI but that's three letters.

This is a tough crossword to solve

What is the file name?

What is the full path to the Scratch Disk folder?

Someplace in there, you have an illegal character.

OK, move on to the next question: What is the complete Path for the Scratch Disk and your project name?

Mine is:

/RAID/Capture Scratch/ABC Widgets/ (where RAID is the name of the volume where all my media files live and ABC Widgets is the name of my project.)

In other words, where exactly are the captured media files for this project?

Strangely enough I had this error yesterday!

Never seen it before and to top it, I was just re-saving over a previous video file of the same name that I had just re-made, so FCP had happily already called it that name!

I just gave it another name and re-saved and it was fine!

Bizarre.

Sometimes FCP can be funny about saving over existing files. I find that if you delete the old file and try again, it generally works.

I'm not sure about mac's, but on pc's, there can be a problem if a path name is too long. So if the files are buried many layers deep, that can cause problems.

The other possibility here, in addition to the full path name, is an unprinting character accidentally entered in the file name, like "control C" rather than "C". This error is most likely being generated by the Mac OS rather than FCP. FCP is only passing that error on to the user.

Try carefully typing a different name.

Try capturing to a different disk. Your capture disk is correctly mounted is it not?