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Anomalies with digitized footage
We are in the midst of producing a DVD and have encountered an unusual anomaly. We have digitized all of our media, edited all of our sequences, mixed all the audio and gone through approvals with each segment. We are now ready to put everything in a final timeline and export for DVD. Everything looked great last friday. Monday, when we came in the office we noticed that almost every sequence had footage with tape hits. When we match framed to the source media, the hit, pixilation, or audio hit was on the original file. None of these hits were present last week when we were editing and mixing, but they are present today. We cannot figure out what would have caused these anomalies. Any ideas?
We are a post-production house with nine edit suites running FCP Suite (6.0.1). We are all connected to an XSAN (60TB) and our machines are dual 3GHz quad core machines with 8 GB RAM.
We were ahead of the deadline and now we fear we will miss our deadline because we will need to re batch all the video. Any thoughts?
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[Alan Smith] “Everything looked great last friday. Monday, when we came in the office we noticed that almost every sequence had footage with tape hits. When we match framed to the source media, the hit, pixilation, or audio hit was on the original file. None of these hits were present last week when we were editing and mixing, but they are present today.”
There’s only one possible explanation, you were viewing frames and these hits of yours are only on a single field. Otherwise, there’s simply no way they can be on the tape and not show up in your project. If they’re just single-field issues, you can copy the frame before and paste it in. It’s not elegant. There are field-replacement plugins for FCP, I believe, but sorry, I cannot tell you exactly who might offer one.
Tape hits are serious equipment problems. If your stuff was all shot with a single camera, it’s time to send it in. If you are getting these hits on multiple camera sources, it’s probably being caused by your feeder deck.
bogiesan
This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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The problem is that they are not on the original tape. We have gone back and looked at the original footage and there are not hits. These “tape hits” do not exist on the original footage, they only appeared today. This event has occured on footage from multiple different cameras digitized from multiple different decks. There does not seem to be any pattern to the cause. All footage was shot using new, purchases in February 2008, Sony XD HDCam and digitized with the new PDW-70 decks. All footage was shot 1080i60 and digitized using ProRes 422(HQ). We are perplexed.
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