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fcp renaming quicktime files upon capture????
we are capturing in fcp 5.0.4 via firewire to an xserv with 4t’s of storage. we are capturing hd footage with the easy set-up DVCPRO HD – 720p 60. there are two seats on our system and we are trying to share our media with fibreshare x(we tried an xsan on the last project and it gave us nothing but problems from day one. it was re-set numerous times and it never worked properly, blah, blah)
when i went to reconnect the media that was digitized on the other system i noticed that while capturing, the quicktime file name at the finder level had been changed. for example: if the clip was called “jim sitting still” when it was captured the name of the quicktime file created on the external drive would be changed to “jim sitting still. sitting still. sitting still” it doesn’t happen to every clip, it only happens intermittently and it only happens on the drives and not to the masterclips in the project.
any ideas?
thanks,
mark -
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Something tells me it’s your SAN software. I’ve got some experience with Xsan and never had trouble with it for what I wanted it to do. And this is on a 10 seater. That being said, I’m sure that your software should work. Spec is looking just fine.
I don’t have experience with Fibershare X. I’m sure it’s good stuff. I’d contact Charismac tech support if I were you. This is pretty new software so not many FCP’ers may know it off the bat.
Good luck.
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kevin,
thanks for the response. i spoke to charismac this afternoon and they are looking into it. i will also have somebody check out the SAN software.
thanks,
mark -
I have had the same problem, and I’ve never used a san. I have a G5 Dual 2.7 with a G-Raid 500 connected via a firewire 800 card that I added on. My producer has an ibook with a fw400 drive. When we first got our macs, one of us would log and capture, then the other would get the project from the first and capture the media. (We work long distance.)
Here’s what I noticed. He would log and capture some reels, then send the project to me and I would also capture the clips. I would edit some and send the project back to him and he would open it and then he would rough out some ideas and send the sequence back. I would open it and try to reconnect and the problem would surface. After 3 or 4 times of passing a sequence back and forth, there would be several repeats with dots between them, like “jim sitting still. sitting still. sitting still.sitting still. sitting still. sitting still”
I don’t really know if it has anything to do with this issue, but I found that occasionally he would type a period or ellipses in his log entries, which I suspect is fine for the description, but not for the file name. I suspect that it would get confused by the dots and start repeating part of the file name. I say “I suspect” because I haven’t verified this, because it really isn’t an issue for me now that we don’t work exactly like that anymore, plus I would just find the clip and force it to reconnect and all would be fine anyway. I did use it to force him to stop typing dots. The first time he had problems reconnecting and I had to talk him through it over the phone, he was broke. By the 3rd or 4th time he was reconnecting, he was cursing himself.
Maybe this will help you troubleshoot. Let me know what you find out. I’d like to know for sure.
Thanks,
Gary -
gary,
did this cause any problems for you as you got further along with your project? did you have to reconnect your clips a lot?
at the moment, i’m concerned because we’re working on a ninety minute show that is very cutty and graphics intensive(picture in picture, varicam, motion effects, resizing flat art, etc.) and we have a pretty tight deadline.
on the last project we did like this we had endless frustrating problems once we got to the color correct. i’m just a bit concerned before we proceed much further.
thanks,
mark -
gary,
thanks again for your post. i just went through some clips and found that it might be any clip with a .(period) in the body gets some part of the clip name duplicated. our show is about napoleon and my assistant abbreviated his name to nap. in alot of clips. we have some 3000 clips that i’m going through and that seems to be the case on every one. does anyone have any idea if this could be a problem down the road.
thanks,
mark -
It sounds like you guys have hit upon something with the DOT naming convention. Good Luck.
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Mark,
Been pretty busy. Just now getting caught up on the cow.
The only problem I ran into was each time we would try to pass the job back and forth, I would have to manually locate and reconnect each affected clip.
If you are early in the process, I believe if you make the clips offline and delete the media, then rename the description and remove the dots, then recapture the clips, it will name the clips with your new description name. If a dot in the description is truly the issue, that should take care of it.
If it’s too late for that, I think I would at least try renaming the description and remove the dots, and renaming the media filename to remove it’s dots and the replication, then manually reconnecting. Maybe it will not continue down the same path it has started down if you get rid of all the dots.
These are just a couple of thoughts. I didn’t worry too much about it since it didn’t really cause me any problems, so I can’t verify that these fixes will work, it’s just what I would try next.
Let me know if you find out anything else.
Thanks,
Gary
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