long clips imported into media pool are partially black

[David Roth weiss]

Bruce,

It’s very difficult to say what the issue(s) are that you’re experiencing. However, since the upgrade to ver. 12 is free, I would certainly recommend you give it a shot, as one of the biggest improvements in the “underpinnings” of Resolve, at least in my understanding, is it’s improved file handling capabilities.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los Angeles

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[Bruce Carter]

Now running v12 and same result. So it is not due to Resolve. Looking at the clip metadata to see if it can be fixed by adding a Reel # per a suggestion.

[David Roth weiss]

[Bruce Carter] “Looking at the clip metadata to see if it can be fixed by adding a Reel # per a suggestion.”

That would have been my next suggestion as well – no reel #’s accounts for the majority of relinking issues I’ve helped to troubleshoot.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los Angeles

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[Bruce Carter]

I tried two different ways to modify the Reel #.

First I selected the Name column, then Edit>Duplicate. Then selected Reel #. This fails with

the error message: No modifiable entries in column Reel #.

Second, I selected a Reel # column entry for a clip. The white box appears for data entry but

it will not accept any input.

So how do you modify the Reel # column?

[David Roth weiss]

I can’t remember and I’m on the road. Maybe ask in a new thread? Or, change in another app first?

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los Angeles

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[Bruce Carter]

Here’s an update as of tonight. It is looking like there is a bug in DaVinci Resolve. Will know more later. Took the media drive over to Blackmagic support in Burbank and they had a look at it. Whereas Avid and Premier are able to load and playback both the camera original files and the Avid transcoded files, Resolve is not. It is showing black frames on the long clips.

The whole notion of Reel # and TapeID and LINK and AuxTC2 and FPS and so on and on is a red herring.

As a workaround I am considering exporting a single movie file out of Avid since I have achieved edit lock for picture and sound. Then bring that into Resolve and use Scene Detection to slice, dice and grade.

Will update later.

[David Roth weiss]

That is most certainly something that no one could ever expect. It just goes to show, from time to time, just when we think we’ve heard it all, we realize we know almost nothing.

Awesome discovery Bruce… So, are the guys in Burbank gonna have that fixed by 6am tomorrow? 🙂

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los Angeles

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.

[Joseph Owens]

[Bruce Carter] ” In the media pool there is one clip that is partially black when it is scrubbed. In the edit page there are multiple clips that are black which are out of that media clip. This clip has a duration of 24:27:00.”

Is this source element composed of many “spanned” clips? I’ve hit this a couple of times with long takes.

jPo

“I always pass on free advice — its never of any use to me” Oscar Wilde.

[Bruce Carter]

Yes, believe that it is. In the problem clip I’m looking at is numbered 00006.mts when viewed in Resolve
and then the next one is 00009.mts.

[David Roth weiss]

Wait a sec, are you saying the BM tech support guys could not figure that one out?

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor/Colorist & Workflow Consultant
David Weiss Productions
Los Angeles

David is a Creative COW contributing editor and a forum host of the Apple Final Cut Pro forum.