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white dotted lines
Hello, Creative Cow Community,
We are editing a piece in FCP and we are seeing hits in our video that look like white dotted lines. They show up for a couple of frames and then disappear. We need to dump a finished show to Beta and we can’t because we keep getting these hits. We see them both in the FCP timeline and on the tape. To get rid of them we have tried deleting preferences, deleting render files and re-rendering, resetting PRAM on the Mac, and tightening all cables. None of these have worked.
What else can we troubleshoot? Could it be an issue with our drives or cables?
We are running:
Final Cut Pro 6.0.2
Mac OS X 10.4.11
AJA IoLA
2 ProMax drives connected by SATA cablesThanks in advance,
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8 Replies
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Can you post a frame grab?
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Have you considered the possibility that this problem is with your footage? If that’s the case then it’s going to be a long process of trying to clean it up.
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Have you checked your camera tapes? What was the original source.
It looks almost like faulty tape heads on what ever played back the footage.
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The originals were shot on Beta SP and don’t contain these lines. We think our ProMax drives are going bad. When a source clip is on the ProMax drive – we see lines. Copy that same file to another drive – and the lines are gone.
Thanks for your thoughts, guys.
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Check your cables, cables connection. Call Promax..
Do you have an electric motor or sub wolfer (sp), a flourescent lamp with the ballast going bad, or maybe a radio near these drives or cable.
Anything that would generate a magnetic field or emit RF?
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I have seen that type of junk with a graphics card issue in a mac… check your card. Although I don’t know for sure if that would carry over to the edit to tape….
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It was definitely bad drives. We bought a new one and that fixed the problem. Thanks again for all your ideas.
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