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Avid into Final Cut Pro
Hi! I’m new here… well, I’ve been reading posts here forever but this is my first time needing to start a thread.
I’m sure that there is a lot about this out there and in all my experience I’m not sure who to fix this, what the problem is, or even what to ask in a search. I work in Avid, Final Cut Pro (7 & X) and occasionally Premiere. My company has been hired by another production company to finish a feature that has footage from over a decade ago.
The footage was originally in Avid. It was 35mm transfer, DV, 16mm, HDV, etc… random mix. In 09, the entire project was exported/converted/whatever into FCP but the editor who was involved with that is no longer with the company. Upon opening the FCP project, some but not all the footage is viewable.
According to the producer, they had seen all the footage at some point… all footage was working. Now we get a white screen with static for audio. Normally I’d say it is a quicktime issue, plugin, or something of the sort but some footage works and some does. The odd thing is, since 2009, this system hasn’t changed at all. It is STILL running 10.4 Tiger, and FCP 6. So it is strange that once my company gets the project, it doesn’t work.
When looking at the files on the hard drive, they show tiny sizes like 24k or something like that. When opening it in FCP it also says they are offline in the Reconnect Media window but not in the browser or timeline. When attempting to reconnect, it shows that one file has three parts to it. I have little experience with switching systems halfway through a project. This is why I have never suggest or had my team do it. If we start in Avid, we finish with Avid. If we start with FCP, with end with FCP.
Any help is greatly appreciated. Sorry for the lengthy post. Thanks!!!
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4 Replies
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[Adrian Galli] “Now we get a white screen with static for audio.”
You may have your Canvas set to “Alpha” instead of “RGB”.
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Thanks for the reply. That was the first thing I checked. The audio also is nothing but static.
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Not knowing what kind of Avid (mac/pc), I would ask, was the media recaptured for the FCP edit? Or was it recompressed in someway by the avid? I ask because you mentioned that an offline file was looking for 3 parts of a file… could you be dealing with media that started in FAT-32, so was restricted to 2gb file sizes… since the media has been moved could all of those links/aliases be lost….
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[Adrian Galli] “When looking at the files on the hard drive, they show tiny sizes like 24k or something like that”
This is a dead giveaway.
Those clips are QT ref files. And probably the link to the originals is broken, probably cause the footage has been copied, or a drive is offline.Bouke
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