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Digitize problems HDV Sony Z1U w/Avid Xpress pro
We are trying to digitize via firewire, longer clips from Sony HDV Z1U camera or HDV M1U deck into our Mac Quad Xpress Pro 5.6 system w/mojo sdi. System stops digitizing on every camera break, even though we have selected,”digitize over time code break” in Avid. Anyone have a work around on this problem? It happens everytime the the shooter stopped the camera. I also notice that the time code breaks between shots are more like a lazy count and not actually a change in time code. I know someone must be experiencing this problem. It requires someone constantly babying the digitize process and a real pain.
Hope to hear from you.
p.s. we also have nightmares with trying to transcode & output an HDV/SD mixed sequence project to a standard def,DVD. We believe this is due to possibly corrupt files which we’re constantly looking for. Any idea on how these files are getting corrupted? Even the mixdown route freezes with “assync errors.”
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Maybe try removing the “Stop capture if a bad frame is detected”. Couldn’t hurt to try that.
As for a mixed HDV and SD content project going to SD DVD; Go to the format tab in the project window, and switch from 1080 to 30i. Next go back to the bin and sorting by format. Find all the HDV content. Highlight those clips, and transcode to a 30i format of your choice. DV50 ought to do nicely.
While those clips are still highlighted, select Re-link. The option should be available resolutions in the 30i project, such as your DV50. Select that, and the clips in the timeline should be re-linked from HDV to DV50. Now Send to Sorenson.
The nice thing about this is, if you change the project back to 1080 in the format, you can re-link it back exactly the way it was. Try a few tests before doing this if it’s your first time.
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Alex Alexzander
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