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Consolidating “FAILED TO CONVERT TRACK TYPE TO DDEF”
Ran into a roadblock for the past two days now, hoping to find some answers.
Been trying to Consolidate an hour long show to a new drive, with 30 frame handles (there are plenty of handles on the clips)
I am not converting audio sample rate or bit depth or format.
Just copying the media over to an external drive from Unity. I get the follow error.
“Exception: Failed to convert track type to ddef”
This happens about halfway through the consolidation. Everytime.
So far I have tried to recreate the sequence, try different machines, consolidate to an internal SATA drive instead of an external, recreated database. Still no luck
Any ideas?
anyone?…bueller?
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Did you ever find a solution? I’m having the same problem and trying to find a solution quickly? Thanks much
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Yes I found the problem. In my case it was a bad media that needed to be digitized again. Same rule applies for imported media.
To avoid re-digitizing and importing the whole show, I split it up my sequence into 4 acts, and made a new sequence for each act.
Then consolidated them one by one, until i received the error message again.
Then I started looking for a needle in a haystack. Meaning, lifting a clip either from the tail or head of the sequence, and consolidating. Lifting a clip and consolidating, until I would not get the error message. Then thats when I knew I had found the bad media/clip.
Went back into my original 1 hour sequence, deleted the media for that one clip (do not do this if you do not have the original files/tapes)
Consolidated one last time, and everything went through just fine.
Once I digitized that tape that was causing all the trouble, I did another clean fresh consolidation, and got past the problem.It’s a days work, maybe two.
Goodluck! hope this helps
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Gotcha, thank you. We’ve isolated the “error’d” clips to try and find consistencies. Seems to all be from the same VT so we’ll try reimporting. Thanks so much. Very helpful!
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Gotcha, thank you. We’ve isolated the “error’d” clips to try and find consistencies. Seems to all be from the same VT so we’ll try reimporting. Thanks so much. Very helpful!
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Hi.
I’ve hade the same problem but after commiting all multicam tracks it all worked out fine.
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