Ingesting clips

Can someone tell me what this means? This was part of a read me file that I just stumbled over.

Canon XF Plugin for Final Cut Pro X
README FILE

Version 2.1

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Copyright (C) 2012 Canon Inc.

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This file contains important information about Canon XF Plugin for Final Cut Pro X.
Please read the contents carefully.

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Contents

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1. Ingesting relay clips


1. Ingesting relay clips

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In the Camera Import window, relay clips recorded with a Canon camcorder of
the XF series are not handled as spanned clips and are instead ingested as
independent clips.


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It means that if you have a shot that was recorded across two cards that when ingested into FCP X it won't come in as one clip but two or more.

Would like to see this fixed. It's the same with Cam.

As Seanus says, if clips span cards they don't get joined - by any software I have, not just FCPX.

Clips that span files within the same card are joined. Clips that span cards aren't (though the clips on each card are joined 'within' that card).

It's usually no big deal. In fact, we often manually switch cards when we see it's getting close and there is an appropriate time to do it.