Log and Transfer Crashes on me in FCP7 - can't upload our Christmas video.

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Log and Transfer Crashes on me in FCP7 - can't upload our Christmas video.

I am trying to upload some Family Christmas video to Final Cut Pro 7. I recorded it on a Canon Vixia HF200 SD Card. When I go into FCP - click log and capture (the video drive is connected and I am using a USB cord). The color wheel spins for a minute and crashes Final Cut Pro.

I switched SD cards and I can upload some other video, but this is card for some reason is not allowing me to upload those precious Christmas moments. Any suggestions for a work around? Or how to fix the problem?

The video plays just fine on the camcorder. I have tried to copy the files to the hard drive and than put them on another SD card and that did not work either.

I am using a iMac Intel Core 2 Duo with Max OSX 10.6.2. Everything system wise is new and up to date.

iMac 2.4 GHZ Intel Core 2 Duo, Mac OS X (10.6.2)

Posted on Feb 20, 2010 4:10 PM

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Andy Mees

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Feb 20, 2010 4:45 PM in response to cheloco17

Create a new empty folder called "Christmas" on your Mac, and then when the SD card is mounted on the desktop find the BPAV folder within that card and drag and drop it to your Christmas folder so that you end up with a copy of the BPAV folder and all its contents. Now open FCP's Log and Transfer and add the Christmas folder (press Cmd I, navigate to the Christmas folder and press Open)

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cheloco17 Author

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Feb 20, 2010 10:36 PM in response to Andy Mees

Andy thanks for taking the time to help me. I have my SD card open, but I do not see a BPAV folder.

I see:
BackUp
Clipinf (which has a whole bunch of .CPI files in it.)
Index.bdm
movieobg.bdm
playlist
stream (which has a whole bunch of .MTS files in it.)

Do any of those look familiar?

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Andy Mees

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Feb 20, 2010 11:08 PM in response to cheloco17

Ok, it seems like what you're seeing there is the contents of the folder i'm looking for ... is that the root level of your SD card or is there a containing folder (maybe a BDMV folder)? if so then that BDMV folder is the one you need to copy over to your hard disc.

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cheloco17 Author

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Feb 21, 2010 7:31 AM in response to Andy Mees

Okay, I found a BDMV file. Inside that file has everything I Just listed. Do I build it like you just mentioned above by putting that into the Christmas folder?

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cheloco17 Author

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Feb 21, 2010 7:35 AM in response to cheloco17

I just reread your post. I am moving the info from the SD card to the file now.

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cheloco17 Author

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Feb 21, 2010 7:54 AM in response to cheloco17

Okay, I opened Log and Transfer, Import from that file. It crashed FCP again. I don't why it keeps doing that.

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DC Reels

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Feb 21, 2010 9:41 AM in response to cheloco17

Canon makes great cameras (I have one too) but their native footage files need a little extra attention. You're half way there, but take the file on your hard drive and do some transcoding. Run it through Compressor or Streamclip and make it a ProRes 422 .mov file. Then load the new 422 clip into FCP. That should work.

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cheloco17 Author

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Feb 21, 2010 3:22 PM in response to DC Reels

Thanks DC. I am sorry, it is going to sound like I don't know what I am doing, but I don't. I have opened up Compressor and got to Batch Files. I don't see a setting to switch it to ProRes 422. Also, what file do I drag and drop into the window. I tried playing around with it and none of the files will work, including .MTS or . CPI.

Thanks for taking the time to help me.

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Nick Holmes

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Feb 21, 2010 4:34 PM in response to cheloco17

You might find MPEG Streamclip simpler to use.
Read my tutorial here: http://www.secondchairvideo.com/?p=694

MPEG Streamclip will only allow you to load the correct files -others will be greyed out.
You want the .mts files by the way.

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Tom Wolsky

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Feb 21, 2010 4:37 PM in response to Nick Holmes

I don't think Streamclip will work with mts files.

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Nick Holmes

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Feb 21, 2010 4:41 PM in response to Tom Wolsky

According to the Help file in my 1.9.3b1 version it supports them.
But then I don't have any .mts files to actually try.

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cheloco17 Author

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Feb 24, 2010 8:33 PM in response to Nick Holmes

Okay guys, thanks for your help. Sorry I have been on the road for a few days and have not been on my mac.

I did as your tutorial suggested. As I do it I get:

"File open error: unrecognized file type - open anyway? ok?"

So I hit open anyway. It starts the process and than comes up.

"Files were not added to the batch list, the last one for the following reason: can't read the frame size."

Any more suggestions? - whew I feel like this is a tough one.
Thanks everyone for your assistance, I appreciate it.

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cheloco17 Author

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Feb 24, 2010 8:35 PM in response to Nick Holmes

Okay guys, thanks for your help. Sorry I have been on the road for a few days and have not been on my mac.

I did as your tutorial suggested. As I do it I get:

"File open error: unrecognized file type - open anyway? ok?"

So I hit open anyway. It starts the process and than comes up.

"Files were not added to the batch list, the last one for the following reason: can't read the frame size."

Any more suggestions? - whew I feel like this is a tough one.
Thanks everyone for your assistance, I appreciate it.

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cheloco17 Author

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Feb 24, 2010 8:41 PM in response to Nick Holmes

Okay guys, thanks for your help. Sorry I have been on the road for a few days and have not been on my mac.

I did as your tutorial suggested. As I do it I get:

"File open error: unrecognized file type - open anyway? ok?"

So I hit open anyway. It starts the process and than comes up.

"Files were not added to the batch list, the last one for the following reason: can't read the frame size."

Any more suggestions? - whew I feel like this is a tough one.
Thanks everyone for your assistance, I appreciate it.

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brand155

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Apr 1, 2010 1:38 PM in response to cheloco17

I am having the exact same problem as you are, except that my version of FCP would Log and Transfer CPI files from my Canon HF11 just fine until this week when it just all the sudden stopped recognizing the SDHC card and it now causes FCP to quit unexpectedly whenever I try to log and capture from the card.

Did you ever get an answer for this?

I have the most up to date version of FCP. Compressor won't read the files. It doesn't work even if I copy directly to the desktop then try importing to FCP. Any ideas?

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