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FCP makes duplicate files the QT doesn’t understand?….
I’m looking through my media, trying to make room, and I notice a LOT of 2 GB files that I never captured in the captured folder. Try to play them, and QT tells me in can’t understand the file. Anyone have an explanation?
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Do your capture scratch setting state. record audio and video to separate fiiles. This is what it sounds like to me.
Make sure this box is not selected keep the audio and video in the same clip. The other way creates a relationship in which the audio is in s separate file but can not pla without the reference to the video.
David
The new year is over
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first thing I thought, but settings are correct. for example, I have 99 files that are 64K, then a handful of files that are around 2 GB each. each one of these non-viewable files have name like “002 Edge Seam1-1-av-1”, truncating off of “Edge Seam 1-1-av”, which is viewable. I’ve experimented by deleting the non-viewable files, with no effect to the project. Haven’t dug into the project enough yet to know if the files are recreated, but either way they are taking up a lot of disk space. BTW, this is with FCP 5
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Ahh!
and yes of course there is the whole CONSTANT FRAMES debacle going on now too, which I think is related to RT.
david
I can’t believe it’s not butter!
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Do NOT delete those files. You will be giving yourself a lot of headache. Unless it’s a error, those files are connected to your source/original file. You must have the file size limit check in your preferences. What FCP is doing is creating a video/audio file then breaking it up into the size limit you have checked. So depending on how big/long your footage is will determind how many times it breaks up the file.
Non of them are playable execpt the original file. but when you delete part of one, it will not play correctly. The file sizes seem small?
If you want to free up some space, then you NEED to use the Media Manager. It will keep only what you need, it’s very useful for situations like these.
Good luck,
Todd at UCSB
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file size limit is not turned on. Delete the files, original plays just fine. Keep the files, original plays just fine. Most the files seem to be about 2GB. Tried media manager. Archived a 13 minute vid the other day, told me it could only bring it down to 80GB, down from 120GB. only 4 original miniDV tapes. This particular project should be NO MORE than 20 GB once archived. Checked the files, sure enough, full of these unplayable files. tried deleting, project plays back perfectly. Did some searching, found the same thing in all the ongoing project folders!
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Did you re-digitise anything when originally feeding tapes in? eg tc break and a bombed capture that didn’t get saved?
Enzo Tedeschi
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couple of things;
Just because file limit size isn’t checked now, doesn’t mean it wasn’t when the media was digitized. It really sounds like that’s how it’s behaving.Two, the media manager is only going to tell you how much space you’re going to save in relation to what media is related to the project. In other words, if you have gigs of space being taken up, but doesn’t refer to any project, the media manager probably doesn’t compute it when it’s telling you.
I’d still use MM then delete all the old files, you should probably see a big jump in space.Good Luck,
Todd at UCSB
Television Production
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