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CS5 and XDCAM EX
I am working on a project with XDCAM EX footage and some clips can’t just be imported in After FX. I get this error message: “After Effects error: Error (4) reading frame from file” (86:2)”.
It’s only a couple of clips that just play fine in FCP or QT player. I have been working with XDCAM EX for 3 years now and never had a problem until I upgraded to CS5 🙁 Any idea ? It looks like AE can’t see the file as a valid .mov file, because if I look at the codec it says MPEG and not XDCAM EX as it should be. I’ve tried to delete the clip and re-import it with FCP, but it did not change anything. -
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I have the latest version available.
I know that XDCAM EX is indeed MPEG-2 encapsuled as an MP4 file. When you import it with FCP it is converted to QT with the XDCAM EX codec.
But that does not explain why AE does not see some file as QT but still as MPEG file (that seems to be the problem). I tried that on another machine and it worked fine. This happens on a 12-core Mac Pro. When MP rendering is not enabled, it seems to get a little better… So I suspect a hardware bug.
Anyone had this kind of trouble ?
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I am running QT 10 on both machines. Or maybe it has something to do with my Kona card… I found a workaround by re-exporting manually the clips from FCP. I think the problem is with clips that have the same name that some older clips from another projects, but it still does not make sense.
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I had the latest drivers, the one that were updated for CS5. I experienced some trouble before (a hue shift with motion JPEG codec when previewing the comp with the Kona card) but nothing quite like that with XDCAM EX. This is definitely a nasty bug 🙁
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I think you are getting confused because there are 2 distinct issues here.
The know issues with Aja and CS5 occur EVERYTIME you use specific codecs (MJPEG…). Lots of people have been reporting it over the www. I got in touch with Aja’s tech support and they released a fix for that last week. I installed it and there is no shift color bug anymore.
However as I said the XDCAM EX problem does not occur with every XDCAM EX clip, only a couple of files. If it was a simple Aja driver issue, don’t you think that would affect ALL the XDCAM EX clips ? I will try that on another machine with another Aja card. Besides, what about the error messages regarding multiprocessing ? Not sure – again – this is just a driver issue.
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I tried importing the very same clip that causes this bug on another Mac with another Kona card and it worked just fine. So this is definitely not a Aja driver issue, probably more a multi processor error as I suspected…
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