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-av headaches, please help
So here’s the situation.
I was given several Lacie drives with media already digitized and ready to use for a one hour doc. I started scanning through the footage (digitized as one long clip for each tape at my request) and noticed the footage was stuttering and wouldn’t allow me to shuttle quickly through it. I found that odd since I was connected via firewire 800 and the footage is DV25. Then I got the beachball of death and crashed the system. I checked the drives in disk utility and lo and behold they are formatted FAT 32. So I found a couple of Mac formatted drives and copied the material from FAT 32 drive to the Mac OS Extended drive. I blew away the FAT 32 drive and reformatted it and am currently copying the other FAT 32 drive to the newly formatted Mac OS Extended drive. My problem is that the material that was originally digitized has the -av appendage and has incremental files with the -av appendage. For example:
Tape 1155-av
Tape 1155-av-1
Tape 1155-av-2
so on and so forth.When I try reconnecting the files in FCP, they wont’ reconnect. I can open the root -av file in QT player, but it appears as an audio only file and the other files won’t open in QT player. I get an error when I try to import the files into FCP. I searched the COW and it appears that the files were segmented due to the 2GB file size limit in FAT 32. I also saw that Media Manager can fix this, but I think that is if I still had the files on the original FAT 32 disk. So my question is this, is there a way to reconstitute these files into one file either with QT or some other app so that I have one QT file with both audio and video? (I know the Audacity audio software has a similar function). Is there any way to save these files? Am I totally hosed and will need the tapes completely redigitized?
Please help!Jamie
Mac OS 10.4.8
QT 7.1.3
FCP 5.1.2
Quad 2.5 G5 -
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If these are QT Reference movies, you should be able to open one in QT Pro and save as self-contained. When one is open and you’re viewing the Movie Properties, it should show all the numbered parts in the Resources pane.
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Tom – thanks for the response.
I think I have a solution, but I’ve lucked into it. I mounted the Mac OS formatted drives with the files that have the -av extension onto my Intel MacBook. Lo and behold FCP recognized the files without any problem and I am able to shuttle thru the footage quickly (the original problem I ran into on the G5). So it appears if you have an MS DOS FAT 32 formatted drive, an intel Mac will like it a lot better than a PowerPC…
Pheww… that’s 30 hours of material that doesn’t need to be redigitized…
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Wow, good discovery.
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