EX-3 footage dropouts?

[Anthony Bairstow]

Make sure your video playback quality in your sequence (top left of sequence, drop down) is on HIGH and not MEDIUM

I found that this even effects playback in the viewer if you match frame or just watch ur clip back whole- not just the sequence and canvas

This is tested on FCP 6 – not sure if 7 has this issue

Good luck

Anthony

[Victor Virgilio]

What do you do when you have the drop out of the footage and no longer have the original sxs cards?

[Victor Virgilio]

What do you do if the original sxs cards have been formatted? Am I now stuck with bad footage?

[Bill Kimzey]

Did you, perhaps, make multiple copies from the card? If so, check other copies. One transfer may be bad, the other good.

Does the problem appear if the file is played directly in Quicktime? If not, you might be able to export the problem areas from QTPro into a more robust codec, such as Prores.

Depending on the severity of the problem it may be possible to manually composite good footage into the problem areas of your bad footage.

But, ’tis best practice to use ClipBrowser or some third-party tool with copy-error detection (such as ShotPut) for at least the initial transfer from the SxS card to your footage drive.

[Don Greening]

In addition to Bill’s sage advice, keep in mind that the camera may have actually recorded the bad frames (a rarity) and the fault is not with the integrity of the recording media. If this is the case then copying the clips using Clip Browser with CRC checking on or another third party program the bad frames will be faithfully reproduced in every detail.

– Don

Don Greening
A Vancouver Video Production Company
Reeltime Videoworks
http://www.reeltimevideoworks.com