frame analyzing plugin or program for mac.

[Walter Biscardi]

Final Cut Pro can tell you that as you’re digitizing, playing back or mastering. Dropped Frame warnings can be activated in your User Prefs.

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[Bbalser]

I’ve never heard of one, but it’d be an awesome tool to have! FCP can tell if you have any dropped frames, but that’s it, no specifics, and nothing else. If anyone finds one, I’d love to know about it!

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[Arnie Schlissel]

FCP has a tool to look for ‘long’ frames. I don’t recall that I’ve ever used it. I think it’s under the “Mark” or “modify” menu.

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[Andy Mees]

in FCP: Tools menu > Analyze Movie…

[Andy Mees]

now I look I see there is also Tools > Long Frames > Mark / Clear

[David Bogie]

IN order to use the Analyze Movie thingy, you must select the clip. If you have hundreds to analyze, it’s useless. I’ve used it on what I thought was bad media. It’s still useless as far can tell. Told me nothing.

We see several threads every week about potentially bad media. Sometimes it’s a CMYK still image or a corrupt render file. But it brings editing to a stop and they are difficult to spot.

Fully realizing it was s different type of media (proprietary infact) Ye Olde Media 100 was capable of indicating potentially bad media with a “damaged” icon. It was a H_U_G_E help in debugging large projects. Unimaginably helpful. I was stunned (SHOCkED!) to find out FCP3 had no such diagnostic.

FCP6 should have such a tool by now. Heck, FCP should have lots of things fixed by now.

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[Sean Oneil]

What software do big facilities use when they do a professional QC?

[Shane Ross]

Waveform vectorscopes and their eyes.

Shane

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[Sean Oneil]

[Shane Ross] “Waveform vectorscopes and their eyes.”

Of course, but I sat in a QC session recently and they do have more tools than that to aid them, particularly software that scans each frame for problems. I just didn’t ask what it was called.

Sean