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avc intra codec ingestion
okay guys.
here is the dealio.
I am media managing a television show. We do high speed photography and the footage gets laid down to panasonic p2 recorder..deck..things. They are being recorded onto the deck as avc intra codec.
Then I take the cards into a onebeyond p2 downloading computer. I send off the drive it downloads it to to los angeles.
the other one, I save, backup, and then eventually archive onto a drobo with 4 terebytes of storage.
The drobo is formated ntfs.
I can plug the drobo into my macbookpro and load the footage just fine into log and transfer. every now and then people want to see the footage.
usually it loads in fine when i transcode it to apple pro res, but sometimes, it just hiccups.
any reason why? I have all the codecs installed, i jsut cant figure why its so hit and miss. it happens across cards, so its not a formatting thing at all.
any ideas?
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Is the show TIME WARP perchance? I worked on a couple shows. CDTV.
You have hiccups when converting…pulling off of the MXF files on the Drobo? So some footage you convert has odd, hiccups? Not sure what you mean by that.
Shane
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the footage just randomly stops ingesting. the footage is fine once it gets in, its not creating artifacts in the footage at all.
yah, it is timewarp. season 2 just premiered last night. I’m working on set in boston as the media manager. in a month and a half weve made about 6 terebytes of data!!
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ive noticed that if i make in and out points, a few frames and out from the start and end…it seems to work.
strange.
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HA! I called it. I worked on a few episodes of that. Rough and fine cut them then sent them to Vancouver for the final online.
Hee…funny that I figured that out. Love this show.
Dunno why this is happening…something about the Drobo? Try copying a card to another drive, THEN importing…see if the same issue persists.
Shane
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bringing in footage right off of a p2 is fine. must be something with the ntfs format of the drobo. i just clean installed my machine from scratch, everyhting is tip top.
strange.
thanks for the help!
the workflow is a bit different this year. i sit on set and manage all this insane p2 data. its not easy…..we save lots of image sequences as well!
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Have you tried the Calibrated MXF plugin and Paragon’s NTFS drivers?
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