Panasonic GH1 Transfer Question

I filmed a few events in the last couple of days, came back to capture, and FCP is having an "unknown error" while trying to log and transfer the longer clips. One is 7 minutes, one is 12 minutes, and one is 36 minutes. It just will not transfer them, though the rest transferred fine. Any thoughts?

Found the problem. My external hard drive is my scratch drive. It comes out of the box in a MS-DOS FAT32 format which I had noticed was had a file limit on it. AVCHD files are small on the camera, but extremely large when transferred into FCP and converted using Apple ProRes 422. 6 minutes of AVCHD formatted 1080 24p footage came out to a 4.31 GB file once captured. My hard drive was limiting a file that big from being placed on the hard drive.
Just a heads up. Make sure your drive is not FAT32 when you are looking to edit large clips. I am waiting on the exact format, but I am assuming I will need to buy a new drive and format it with MAC OS Journal before using it as a scratch disk...

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