All my clips are now only a second long in the import window

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All my clips are now only a second long in the import window

Before the clips are completely ingested, before the squares turn blue before showing pictures, the clips show the proper length. but once they are completely loaded into the viewer window, they are all one second long. Or maybe only a frame. Why is it doing this.

I tried importing the clips anyway but I received an error that they were still in contact with the camera. Which is odd because I am trying to get the media out of an archive.

I was doing this in 10.0.4 so I hoped upgrading to 10.0.5 would help. But I encounter the same problem.

Has anyone else encountered this problem? Does anybody know a cure?

Final Cut Pro X, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Jul 10, 2012 11:12 AM

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Jul 10, 2012 11:50 AM in response to grincher99

You need to give details of exactly what type of video the clips are and where they came from.

It sounds as though they are not "normal" AVCHD, HDV or DV clips from a camcorder.

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Jul 10, 2012 11:56 AM in response to Ian R. Brown

Hey Ian,

They are normal AVCHD clips. I copied the SD card straight to my hard drive to use as back-up archive. They have worked fine in the past.

The camera I use is a Sony HXR-NX5U

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Jul 10, 2012 12:17 PM in response to grincher99

OK, it sounds as though the clips may be OK.

I've never heard of this happening but the first thing you should try when FCP X does not behave normally is trash the preferences with this free app

http://www.digitalrebellion.com/prefman/

I'm not saying it will cure it but corrupted preferences are responsible for all kinds of weird symptoms, so it's something you should always try.

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Jul 10, 2012 12:25 PM in response to Ian R. Brown

Thanks, I will give that a try.

As an experiment I tried opening the archives in other programs. They imported fine into iMovie. I think they did into Adobe Premiere as well, but I'm not familiare enough with that program to be really sure.

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Jul 10, 2012 1:31 PM in response to grincher99

That worked, Ian. Thank you very much. It was very disconcerting there for a bit.

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Jul 10, 2012 2:32 PM in response to grincher99

For future reference, whenever anything stops working properly, trash the preferences.

It won't always work, but it's a good first strategy.

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