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Content Browser Consistently Crashes When Spot Checking Clips – Ian Cook
I suspect this is an issue for Ian Cook…
I’m having an odd problem with Content Browser 2.3.1 on two OSX 10.8.5 systems, in which it consistently crashes while spot checking recordings from two PMW-F3s, recording XDCAM 35, 1920×1080@30P.
By spot checking, I mean playing a clip, clicking the playhead to a position 5-10 minutes forward on the timeline, playing, and repeating for the duration of the clip. At some point – sometimes in as little as 5 clicks, sometimes after multiple clips – the green play button will illuminate, but nothing will be played. The program is then locked up, and has to be killed (via the force-quit key combination). If the program is full-screen at the time, the system will not respond to the force-quit key command, and the system then has to be manually powered down and restarted.
If I simply drag the playhead across the timeline, I don’t have the problem at all – but can’t really QC the audio… because once I do, I’m one play closer to the application crashing again.
Needless to say, this makes checking the recordings from the two cameras on my current project a bit difficult.
Many Thanks in Advance for any help and advice!
-Denis
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12 Replies
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Can you try rebuilding the metadata and seeing if the issue continues? Create a folder on your desktop, then highlight it in one of the Explorer windows and File–>Import your .mp4s to this location. You’ll get a new BPAV archive with regenerated XMLs, picture pointers etc. You can also try this with just one or two clips to reduce the amount of time it will take. If there are no issues on the copy you can then import the rest of the clips to the new BPAV.
Please also trash the CB preferences. Com.sony.ContentBrowser.plist
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Hi guys,
I am having the exact same problem with Content Browser on a 2010 MacBook Pro running Yosemite.
I’m browsing XDCAM EX MP4 clips from a PMW-350.
Tried trashing preferences and this did not help.
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This issue really needs resolving. It’s unacceptable that a piece of software literally can’t handle playing back and scrubbing through clips.
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The software is very stable but edge cases will always pop up. Version 2.3.1 is mentioned above for the Mountain Lion (10.8.x) user. Does 2.3.2 (latest) perform any better? Yosemite is not officially supported. We may issue one last patch of CB for Yosemite depending on demand but keep in mind that CB is end of life and will be replaced by the new Catalyst Browse / Catalyst Prepare applications once their respective feature sets mature a bit more.
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Thank you for the advice… and my sincerest apologies for not getting back to you sooner. I’ve been rather tied up on several other projects…
That being said, the issue occurs regardless as to whether the preferences are trashed, or a new BPAV archive is created. Having a free moment on my current project, I tested the BPAV archive I created a little over a month ago from the original SxS card… and managed to crash Content Browser within minutes.
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Thank you Ian!
Although I don’t have the original SxS card anymore, within the next 24 hours I will check the new version of Content Browser with the BPAV archive I previously created.
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Thanks Ian. I’ll try 2.3.2. Does CB have a built in updater or do I just download 2.3.2 as a whole app?
I tried Catalyst Browse but it ran shockingly on my computer (2010 MacBook Pro 15″, 2.66 i7, 8GB RAM, 512GB SSD) – the interface was choppy and clips didn’t play smoothly (but the exact same clip will play perfectly in Content Browser) – in its present state Catalyst Browse isn’t a viable solution.
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Content Browser is pretty much unusable for me because of crashes/freezes.
I’ve tried trashing the preferences and creating a new archive but still it crashes constantly and freezes my system completely.
I’m using version 2.3.2 on OSX 10.9.5.
Any other suggestions I should try?
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Can you send me a crash log from Console?
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Will do. There seem to be a few different folders. What is the location or folder of the log that would be most helpful.
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