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Help! AVCIntra locks up in log and transfer
I shot an hour long interview and some broll using the AVCIntra codec. Now I’m trying to bring it into Final Cut 6.0.5 on my new PowerPC dual quad core Intel machine. It works slow but ok through the first six minutes then locks up. the viewer in P2CMS does the same thing at the same spot. Trying other AVCIntra clips I find they lock up too. My old DVCPROHD clips don’t, however.
I no longer have the original cards–I’m pulling off a firewire drive.
Any way to repair AVCIntra clips on this harddrive?
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25 Replies
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I don’t think it’s your hard drive so much as your computer.
AVC-I and ProRes require intel machines.
From this page:
“This application is supported with IntelMac only. Not supported with PowerMac.”
Jeremy
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Yeah, sorry I meant Intel machine.
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Okay. Then how is your hard dive formatted? It shoudn’t be anything but Mac Os Extended.
Jeremy
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Mac OS extended. I’ve got lots of other footage on the same drive, and plenty of space too. The only clips I have problems with are longish (over 6 minutes) AVC-Intra.
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You have the latest AVC-I codec installed? have you tried unchecking the remove pulldown option in the Log and trasnfer prefs?
Jeremy
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ALso, please double check you drive format in disk utility. 6 minutes is just around the 4GB mark depending on what format you are shooting and the number of audio tracks.
Jeremy
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I’m shooting 720/60, AVCIntra. I’ve checked and the drive is Mac OS extended. It always hangs on the same spots, though not always the same number of frames apart.
I think it may be that the footage was imported (through P2CMS) via FW800 while the IOHD was connected. I’ve noticed that the IO doesn’t play well with FW drives.
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[David Coleman] “I’ve noticed that the IO doesn’t play well with FW drives.”
Yes, it is recommended that you separate the FW bus with the ioHD via an Express34 card for laptops, or a PCIe card on desktops.
Can you watch the whole clip in either P2CMS or Log and Transfer, or does it lock up just while watching it, too? That is, can you view the entire clip without the transfer or does it lock up only on the transfer portion?
What did you use as a card reader?
When you say imported vi P2CMS, does that mean you ingested it in teh database, or simply exported out of P2CMS?
Sorry if some of these questions are redundant, redundant.
Jeremy
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No, redundant is ok, I appreciate your willingness to help. I use a PCD20 card reader daisychained to the FW800 drive. I’ve been copying into the database and then using L&T without exporting. I use compare on ingest and had no errors when copying this footage from the original cards.
I can’t watch the whole clip in p2cms’ viewer. It hangs up at the same point as L&T, so I know it isn’t an FCP problem.
Thanks
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Right now I can play the clip until it hangs, write down the timecode where it hangs, force quit and restart FCP, and ingest the clip excluding 30 frames surrounding the hang point. That has worked so far, but it isn’t very elegant. I have lots of clips of varying lengths that I’ll ultimately back up to tape. I’ll use that as my time code master.
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