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In very big trouble, DCP question
I am in a rush. I must deliver tiffs for DCP and I am having same problem 3 times already
I export movie from QT to image sequence, uncompressed tifs.
and the program stuck at 65 536 frame this is about 40 minutes of movie.
I tried exporting from FCP as well and movie stuck at 65 536 frame exactly, so it happened three times.
What can be the problem. I am in a rush tomorrow I must deliver tifs.
And one question if I continue from 65 537 frame but name will be b for example, so it will continue a 65 536 and then b 001 an etc. Will EAsy DCP recognize numbering??? please assist me in this trouble 🙂
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3 Replies
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Seems like a filesystem number of files issue of some sort. 65536 is 2^16 so maybe that’s the max number of files in a folder that the filesystem can handle or FCP can address.
I think you can break the sequence into sub sequences. Films are normally mastered or rendered out as reels of under 2000 feet, which corresponds to 32000 frames. And most DCP creation software can join reels.
You can do a small trial with multiple sequences of, say, 500 frames and check if easyDCP can join them into one DCP.
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Neil Sadwelkar
neilsadwelkar.blogspot.com
twitter: fcpguru
FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India -
Thanks very good advice. But I went to another way so I have question.in the folder where my images are I found begining image of laste scen. I deleted about 100 images so I deleted up to the end of previous scene. So I exactly know what is the image number from which I can continue. Then I imported my qt file into fcp and found exactly the frame which is last image in folder. Then I cut the movie exactly after that frame and started exporting images with the same settings. So images were numbered differently. Then those differently numbered images I renamed using rename software so now movie images are number from a to z and I did not lose or doubled any frame. What you think?
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This may work. But, of course, if there is some file system limitation of accomodating over 65536 frames in a folder, then you’ll hit that limit again.
If that limit was due to FCP, not the file system, then you’re fine.
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Neil Sadwelkar
neilsadwelkar.blogspot.com
twitter: fcpguru
FCP Editor, Edit systems consultant
Mumbai India
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